2021-04-23 06:35:51 GMT2021-04-23 14:35:51(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CANBERRA, April 23 (Xinhua) Nearly a third of Australian residents were born overseas, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed.
According to ABS figures released on Friday, 7.6 million people living in Australia in June 2020 were born in another country.
The cohort represents 30 percent of the country s total population compared to 28 percent in 2015 and 27 percent in 2010. Australia s population encompasses migrants born in nearly every country worldwide, highlighting our culturally diverse society, Jenny Dobak, the Director of Migration Statistics at the ABS, said in a media release. People born in England continue to be the largest group of overseas-born residents, accounting for 980,000 people. Those born in India became the second largest group in 2020 with 721,000 people.
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(a) Top 5 destination countries based on year ending December 2020.
The median duration away for Australians was 17 days. Of the top 10 countries, those returning from India were away the longest (31 days), followed by China (28 days). The shortest durations were for residents travelling to New Zealand (11 days) and Indonesia (10 days).
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