There were 8.6 million people living in Australia who were born overseas, representing 31.5% of Australia’s total population of 27.2 million. That’s the highest proportion recorded since 1892.
The number of overseas-born residents rose by 396,000 from a year earlier, which was the second-largest yearly increase, topped only by the increase from 2022 to 2023.
That’s more than double the increase in the number of people born in Australia, which rose by 146,000 compared with a year earlier.
State-level data, which is lagged to the most recent census in 2021, shows the top country of birth varies across Australia.
People from China represent the largest group of overseas-born residents in NSW (261,300), while India was the top country of birth in Victoria (272,300) and the ACT (17,500) and Queensland has the highest number of New Zealanders (229,900).
England was the top country of birth in Western Australia (211,700), South Australia (98,800) and Tasmania (20,400), while the Philippines came out on top in the Northern Territory (7,300).
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