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|
Males |
Females |
Persons |
Proportion born in |
Persons as a proportion |
|
|
’000 |
’000 |
’000 |
% |
% |
|
|
Italian |
154.0 |
162.9 |
316.9 |
42.1 |
1.6 |
|
Greek |
124.3 |
128.0 |
252.2 |
52.8 |
1.3 |
|
Arabic |
125.0 |
118.7 |
243.7 |
42.9 |
1.2 |
|
Cantonese |
115.7 |
128.8 |
244.6 |
21.4 |
1.2 |
|
Mandarin |
103.3 |
117.3 |
220.6 |
12.6 |
1.1 |
|
Vietnamese |
94.3 |
100.5 |
194.9 |
30.3 |
1.0 |
|
Spanish |
46.6 |
51.4 |
98.0 |
24.4 |
0.5 |
|
Tagalog (Filipino) |
36.3 |
56.1 |
92.3 |
15.0 |
0.5 |
|
German |
34.7 |
40.9 |
75.6 |
19.9 |
0.4 |
|
Hindi |
36.4 |
33.6 |
70.0 |
13.7 |
0.4 |
|
Macedonian |
34.0 |
33.8 |
67.8 |
40.1 |
0.3 |
|
Croatian |
31.3 |
32.3 |
63.6 |
34.1 |
0.3 |
|
Australian Indigenous languages |
27.1 |
28.6 |
55.7 |
96.4 |
0.3 |
|
Turkish |
27.1 |
26.8 |
53.9 |
42.3 |
0.3 |
|
Polish |
23.8 |
29.6 |
53.4 |
21.1 |
0.3 |
|
Serbian |
26.2 |
26.4 |
52.5 |
24.4 |
0.3 |
|
Maltese |
17.8 |
18.7 |
36.5 |
26.5 |
0.2 |
|
Netherlandic |
16.2 |
19.9 |
36.2 |
14.4 |
0.2 |
|
All other languages(b) |
424.8 |
448.2 |
873.1 |
18.5 |
4.4 |
|
Total |
1,499.0 |
1,602.5 |
3,101.5 |
28.8 |
15.6 |
|
(a) Persons whose birthplace was not stated, inadequately described, n.e.c. or at sea were excluded prior to the calculation of percentages. |
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| Age group (years) | |||||||
|
0-24 |
25-44 |
45-64 |
65+ |
Total |
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|
Total population speaking other than English at home |
|||||||
|
Speaks English well or very well |
% |
83.6 |
88.2 |
78.5 |
60.3 |
80.8 |
|
|
Does not speak English well |
% |
8.7 |
9.6 |
18.0 |
29.2 |
14.0 |
|
|
Does not speak English at all |
% |
4.3 |
1.1 |
2.5 |
9.2 |
3.5 |
|
|
Total persons (a) |
’000 |
963.4 |
1008.3 |
753.6 |
421.0 |
3146.2 |
|
| Australian-born population speaking other than English at home | |||||||
|
Speaks English well or very well |
% |
81.2 |
96.2 |
93.5 |
82.8 |
86.5 |
|
|
Does not speak English well |
% |
8.4 |
1.9 |
3.6 |
9.5 |
6.1 |
|
|
Does not speak English at all |
% |
6.0 |
0.5 |
1.0 |
3.6 |
4.0 |
|
|
Total persons (b) |
’000 |
554.0 |
259.1 |
72.8 |
12.4 |
898.4 |
|
|
(a) Includes 56,000 people who did not state how well they spoke English. |
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There are also more than 100 ethnic newspapers, ranging from modest periodicals to major weekly and daily publications in more than 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese and Korean. (http://www.dfat.gov.au/aib/society.html)