Tasmania Emigration and Immigration

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Ancestry and Immigration[1]

Country of Birth (2016)[128][129] Birthplace Population
Australia 411,490
England 18,776
New Zealand 4,997
Mainland China 3,036
Scotland 2,283
Netherlands 2,193
Germany 2,108
India 1,980
United States 1,630
Philippines 1,616
South Africa 1,524
Malaysia 1,409

At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:[N 2][128][129]

English (47.7%) Australian (46.3%)[N 3] Irish (11.7%) Scottish (10%) Indigenous (4.6%)[N 4] German (3.9%) Dutch (2.2%) Italian (1.5%) Chinese (1.5%) 19.3% of the population was born overseas at the 2016 census. The five largest groups of overseas-born were from England (3.7%), New Zealand (1%), Mainland China (0.6%), Scotland (0.4%) and the Netherlands (0.4%).[128][129]

4.6% of the population, or 23,572 people, identified as Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) in 2016.[


  1. "Tasmania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Ancestry_and_immigration, accessed 8 April 2022.