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Australia reaches highest immigration figures since days of convict ships.

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Photo: Public domain. The capital Canberra in Australia, one of the few inland cities.

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Barely a day goes by without stories in the news about immigration to the United States, where people are jumping the fence, or Britain where desperate migrants are crossing in rubber boats to the British Isles, but another major country has a higher share of foreign migrants. native-born residents than Australia.

Not since the 19th century has Australian data shown such a high percentage of foreign-born residents.

Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday show the share of Australia’s population born overseas reached 30.7 per cent in 2023 – up from 29.5 per cent in 2022.

The proportion of overseas-born Australians has not been this high since 1891, when such numbers were first recorded.

Although the 1890s saw high levels of immigration, this share fell to just 10 percent in 1947 due to reduced migration during World War I, World War II, and the Great Depression.

Since then, the proportion of Australians born overseas has only increased – apart from a slight respite in that increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ABS confirmed that its data was based on population counts conducted at the time and that Indigenous Australians were not routinely included in such counts until 1971. The latest figures from June 2023 show this

The Australian population was 26.6 million people, of which 18.5 million were born in Australia and 8.2 million were born elsewhere.

The country’s foreign-born population will increase by nearly half a million people by 2023.

Although those born in England are still the largest group born abroad, at 962,000 people, that total number is a slight decline from just over a million people a decade earlier.

The next largest group were those born in India, with a total of 846,000, a number up from 754,000 in 2022.

The Chinese-born population was only slightly lower than in previous years, coming in third at 656,000 people.

More New Zealanders now live in Australia than ever before.

Kiwis round out the top four foreign-born population groups, accounting for 598,000 people.

A total of 170,000 Australian-born Australians were added to the country’s population. That number represents the number of births, minus deaths and net migration to other countries.

Indian, Chinese, Nepalese and Filipino communities in Australia were the ones that grew the most between 2013 and 2023.

Of the countries with at least 1,000 inhabitants in Australia, Latvians are among the oldest, with an average age of 80 years.

Globally, an estimated 280.6 million people (or 3.6 percent of the world’s population) lived outside their country of birth in 2020.

The United States had the most foreign-born people than any other country.

More than 50 million people were born outside the country, which amounts to 15.3 percent of the total population.

Australia ranks ninth in the number of foreign-born people living here, but that number made up a larger share of the population: 29.9 percent.

By comparison, 88.1 percent of those living in the United Arab Emirates were born outside the country, while 72.8 percent of Kuwait’s population was born abroad.

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