Mar 17 2010
African-born people in Australia
According to census data of the Australian Bureau of Statistics there were 248,699 people born in Africa who were resident in Australia in 2006 . This accounted for 5.6% of the overseas-born population. Almost three quarters (72.6%) of the Africa-born resident population were from Southern and East Africa, 22.9% from North Africa and 4.5% from the Central and West Africa region.The largest group were born in South Africa (104,133 or 41.9% of the total Africa-born population living in Australia), 13.5% were born in Egypt, 8.1% in Zimbabwe, 7.7% in Sudan, 7.3% in Mauritius, 4.0% in Kenya and 2.3% in Ethiopia. Africa-born people also came from 51 other countries, each contributing less than 5,000 persons (or less than 2.0% of the total). More on the African Diaspora on the Africa Meet site.
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