In One Decade Indian Population in Australia increased from .8% to 1.9%
Over the last 10 years, the proportion of the Australian population who were born in the United Kingdom decreased from 5.5% in 2006 to 5.0% in 2016. Conversely, the proportions increased for people born in New Zealand (from 2.1% to 2.5%), China (from 1.2% to 2.2%) and India (from 0.8% to 1.9%).
Persons born in India increased 10.7% in last 10 years
In terms of Australia’s population growth, for the top 50 countries of birth (excluding Australia) at 30 June 2016, persons born in Nepal had the highest rate of increase between 2006 and 2016 with an average annual growth rate of 27.8%. However, this growth began from a small base of 4,400 persons at 30 June 2006. The second fastest increase over this period was in the number of persons born in Pakistan (13.2% per year on average), followed by those born in Brazil (12.1%), India (10.7%) and Bangladesh (8.9%). Of the top 50 countries of birth, the fastest decline was for persons born in Malta, with an average annual decrease of 1.5%, followed by persons born in Poland (1.3%).
There are 468 800 people of Indian origin in Australia. Victoria had the largest number of Indians with 169,802 followed by New South Wales at 143,459. Queensland and Western Australia have Indian population 49,145 and 49,385 respectively. There are 27,594 people born in India in South Australia, 10,414 Indians in ACT and 3,598 Indians in Northern Territory. Tasmania has the smallest Indian population in Australia at 1,980 people
Languages
There have been increases in the proportion of the population speaking Hindi (from 0.5% to 0.7%). A total of 159,652 people speaks Hindi in Australia.
Number of people speaking Indian Languages at home
Hindi – 159,652
Punjabi – 132,496
Tamil – 73,161
Urdu – 69,293
Bengali – 54,566
Malayalam – 53206
Gujarati – 52,888
Telugu – 34,435
Marathi – 13,055
Kannada – 9,701
Konkani – 2416
Sindhi – 1592
Oriya – 721
Kashmiri – 215
Religion
2016 census reveals that Australia has 440300 Hindus (1.9% of population) and 125900 Sikhs (.5% of population. Christians constitute 52.1% of the population and Muslims comes second at 2.6%. 30.1% has no religion.
2.8% of people claims Indian Ancestry
Ancestry represents the cultural or ethnic group that a person most closely identifies with, rather than just their place of birth. In 2016, the Census identified more than 300 different ancestries in Australia. Our 10 most common ancestries were:
- English (36.1%)
- Australian (33.5%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Scottish (9.3%)
- Chinese (5.6%)
- Italian (4.6%)
- German (4.5%)
- Indian (2.8%)
- Greek (1.8%)
- Dutch (1.6%).
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