African Australians

This article is about Australians of Sub-Saharan African descent. For Northern Africans, see North African and Middle Eastern Australians.

African Australians
Total population
326,673 (2021 census)[1]
1.3% of Australia's population
 New South Wales 75,942 (1.02%)
 Queensland 64,112 (1.32%)
 Western Australia 66,744 (2.61%)
 Northern Territory 2,660 (1.08%)
 Victoria 90,640 (1.47%)
 South Australia 17,607 (1.03%)
 Tasmania 3,434 (0.66%)
 Australian Capital Territory 5,504 (1.37%)
Languages
Religion

African Australians are Australians descended from any peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa, including naturalised Australians who are immigrants from various regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and descendants of such immigrants. At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within Sub-Saharan African ancestral groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to 1.3%.[1][2] Note that Australian official statistics are based on country of origin not race, hence African immigrants of European descent (such as White South Africans) and their descendants are included as African Australians.

Large-scale immigration from Africa to Australia is only a recent phenomenon, with Europe and Asia traditionally being the largest sources of migration to Australia. African Australians come from diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, educational and employment backgrounds.

  1. ^ a b "Australian Bureau of Statistics : Census of Population and Housing: Cultural diversity data summary, 2021" (XLSX). Abs.gov.au. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG), 2019 | Australian Bureau of Statistics". 18 December 2019.