 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Approximately 3.2% of the population (2021 census)[1] Lebanese Australians: 248,434 Turkish Australians: 87,164 Iranian Australians: 81,119 Egyptian Australians: 60,164 Arab Australians: 60,095 Iraqi Australians: 57,859 Assyrian Australians: 42,346 Syrian Australians: 29,257 Chaldean Australians: 20,106 Sudanese Australians: 16,809 Palestinian Australians: 15,607 Other North African and Middle Eastern: 11,027 Kurdish Australians: 10,171 | |
| Languages | |
| Australian English · Arabic · Aramaic · Azerbaijani · Hebrew · Kurdish · Persian · Turkish · others | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy · Oriental Orthodoxy · Assyrian Church of the East · Catholicism · Protestantism) · Islam · Judaism · Baháʼí Faith · Druze · None (Atheism · Agnosticism) · Zoroastrianism · Yazidism · Mandaeism · Deism |
North African and Middle Eastern Australians are the Australians of North African and Middle Eastern ancestry, including naturalised Australians who are immigrants from various regions in the North Africa and Middle East and descendants of such immigrants. At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within North African and Middle Eastern ancestral groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to 3.2%.[1][2]
Today, North African and Middle Eastern Australians often come from various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, educational and employment backgrounds.
- ^ a b "Australian Bureau of Statistics : Census of Population and Housing: Cultural diversity data summary, 2021" (XLSX). Abs.gov.au. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG), 2019 | Australian Bureau of Statistics". 18 December 2019.
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search