ETHNIC COMPOSITION & NATIONALITY
Nationality
-Australian
Ethnic Groups:
>White
Percentage- 92%
Why located- In 1788 European settlement began. The first migrants were convicts sent from Britain, some British colonies, and Ireland to New South Wales (between 1788 and 1840 80,000 arrived). Later on, in small numbers, Europeans started voluntarily migrating. In 1851, after the discovery of gold in Bathurst immigrants started flooding the areas in massive amounts, majority of which still coming from Britain and Ireland. By the time of federation almost four million people made up the population and 1 in every 4 were born overseas. Today nine-tenths of Australia’s population is European in Ancestry.
> Asian
Percentage- 7%
Why located- Around 42,000 Asians from china migrated to Australia in search of gold along with many other Europeans in 1851. Some Pacific Islanders came for jobs as contract workers and after WWII the Japanese flooded Australia.
>Aboriginal or other
Percentage- 1%
Why located- The aboriginal people were the first to settle in Australia and migrated from Asia nearly 60,000 years before Europeans ever sailed the South pacific. The aborigine ethnicity is considered the indigenous ethnicity of Australia.
-Australian
Ethnic Groups:
>White
Percentage- 92%
Why located- In 1788 European settlement began. The first migrants were convicts sent from Britain, some British colonies, and Ireland to New South Wales (between 1788 and 1840 80,000 arrived). Later on, in small numbers, Europeans started voluntarily migrating. In 1851, after the discovery of gold in Bathurst immigrants started flooding the areas in massive amounts, majority of which still coming from Britain and Ireland. By the time of federation almost four million people made up the population and 1 in every 4 were born overseas. Today nine-tenths of Australia’s population is European in Ancestry.
> Asian
Percentage- 7%
Why located- Around 42,000 Asians from china migrated to Australia in search of gold along with many other Europeans in 1851. Some Pacific Islanders came for jobs as contract workers and after WWII the Japanese flooded Australia.
>Aboriginal or other
Percentage- 1%
Why located- The aboriginal people were the first to settle in Australia and migrated from Asia nearly 60,000 years before Europeans ever sailed the South pacific. The aborigine ethnicity is considered the indigenous ethnicity of Australia.