Australia

The Common Wealth of Australia

Population

Population of Australia


The demographics of Australia show it to be one of the most civilised populations in the world with the majority of Australians living in cities on the coast. Australia's cities are melting pots of different cultures. The indigenous Aboriginal culture survived the first of immigrants of Irish heritage, who are still the most universal immigrant group. The World War II flock to australia of both English and non English-speaking immigrants from Britain, Ireland, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Malta and Eastern Europe, and later from the Middle East, East and South-East Asia, and the India have been significant additions. Lesser numbers of immigrants have also come from the African and American continents.