Country of birth of Australian residents

Countries of birth of Australian estimated resident population (:Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006 [14]).

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in mid-2010 5,993,945 of the Australian

resident population were born outside Australia, representing 26.8% of the total Australian
resident population.
Australia and Switzerland, with about a quarter of their population born outside the country,
are the two countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the world.[16]

Top 40 Countries of
birth

Estimated resident
[15]
population(2010)

Estimated resident
[14]
population(2006)

United Kingdom

1,153,264

1,192,878

New Zealand

476,719

544,171

China

203,143

379,776

India

153,579

340,604

Italy

220,469

216,303

Vietnam

180,352

210,803

Philippines

135,619

177,389

South Africa

118,816

155,692

Malaysia

103,947

135,607

Germany

114,921

128,558

Greece

125,849

127,195

South Korea

49,141

100,255

Sri Lanka

70,908

92,243

Lebanon

86,599

90,395

Top 40 Countries of
birth

Estimated resident
[15]
population(2010)

Estimated resident
[14]
population(2006)

Hong Kong

76,303

90,295

Netherlands

86,950

88,609

United States

64,832

83,996

Indonesia

67,952

73,527

Ireland

57,338

72,378

Croatia

56,540

68,319

Fiji

58,815

62,778

Singapore

49,819

58 903

Poland

59,221

58,447

Thailand

32,747

53,393

Japan

29,469

52,111

Republic of Macedonia

48,577

49,704

Malta

48,978

48,870

Iraq

40,400

48,348

Canada

33,198

44,118

Serbia and Montenegro

68,879

42,064

Egypt

38,782

41,163

Turkey

37,556

39,989

Taiwan

31,258

38,025

Bosnia and Herzegovina 27,328

37,470

Iran

25,659

33,696

Zimbabwe

21,142

31,779

Cambodia

28,175

31,397

Pakistan

19,768

31,277

Romania

14,500

18,320

Papua New Guinea

26,302

31,225

France

20,054

30,631