what percentage of australia's population is foreign born
26%
title: Australia text: (9.3%), Chinese (5.6%), Italian (4.6%), German (4.5%), Indian (2.8%), Greek (1.8%), and Dutch (1.6%). Australia's population has quadrupled since the end of World War I, much of this increase from immigration. Following World War II and through to 2000, almost 5.9 million new immigrants arrived and settled in the country. Most immigrants are skilled, but the immigration quota includes categories for family members and refugees. By 2050, Australia's population is currently projected to reach around 42 million. In 2016, more than a quarter (26%) of Australia's population were born overseas; the five largest immigrant groups were those born in England title: Australians text: 1971, 70 percent of the foreign born were of European origin. Abolition of the White Australia Policy in 1957 by the Menzies government, often incorrectly attributed to a later Labor government, led to a significant increase in non-European immigration, mostly from Asia and the Middle East. Almost one Australian in four was born elsewhere. In 1981, around 50 percent of immigrants were from Europe, and 2.7 percent were from Asia. In 1998 about 40 percent of all immigrants to Australia had been born in Asia. People from the United Kingdom remain the largest group amongst those born overseas. In 2001 title: Australians text: were 51 percent from Europe, 29 percent from Asia, 11 percent from Oceania, and 4 percent came from the Americas. In 1996, over 8 million Australians had at least three ancestries, and over 3 million had four or more. By 2000, a majority of Australia's population was native born, and over 90 percent were descended from people from the British Isles. In 2007, more than 92 percent of all Australians descended from Europeans. In the 2006 Census 455,026 people (or 2.3% of the total Australian population) reported they were of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin. 28 percent of the title: Australia text: (3.9%), New Zealand (2.2%), Mainland China (2.2%), India (1.9%), and the Philippines (1%). Following the abolition of the White Australia policy in 1973, numerous government initiatives have been established to encourage and promote racial harmony based on a policy of multiculturalism. In 2015–16, there were 189,770 permanent immigrants admitted to Australia, mainly from Asia. The Indigenous population—Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders—was counted at 649,171 (2.8% of the total population) in 2016. The increase is partly due to many people with Indigenous heritage previously having been overlooked by the census due to undercount and cases where their Indigenous status had not title: Demography of Australia text: overseas-born women, it was 1.81, while in 2013, it was 1.91 and 1.79 respectively. As of December 2017, the population growth rate was 0.9%. This rate was based on estimates of: Much of the data that follows has been derived from the CIA World Factbook and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, through censuses. The following figures are ABS estimates for the resident population of Australia, based on the 2001 and 2006 Censuses and other data. English 72.7%, Mandarin 2.5%, Italian 1.2%, Arabic 1.4%, Greek 1.2%, Cantonese 1.2%, Vietnamese 1.2%, other 19.8% (2016 est.) Protestant 23.1% (Anglican 13.3%, Uniting Church 3.7%,