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* [[European Australians|European]] (54.65%)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://profile.id.com.au/australia/ancestry#:~:text=Analysis%20of%20the%20ancestry%20responses,2%2C410%2C840%20people%20or%209.5%25) | title=2021 Australia}}</ref>{{refn|group="N"|Lowest range value as it only represents the percentagePercentage of Australians who nominated at least one European Ancestry. This is likely an undercount and should incorporate the additional Australians who nominated only Australian as an ancestry.}}
** [[Anglo-Celtic Australians|Anglo-Celtic]] (42.19%){{refn|group="N"|Due to the option to nominate up to two ancestries, the total amount of those that nominated an Anglo-Celtic Ancestry is lower than the summation of each individual ancestry}}
*** [[English Australians|English]] (32.99%)
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The population of [[Australia]] is estimated to be {{data Australia|poptoday|formatnum}} as of {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.<ref name="popclock">{{cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/population-clock-pyramid|title=Population clock and pyramid|work=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] website|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|access-date=5 March 2024}} The population estimate shown is automatically calculated daily at 00:00 UTC and is based on data obtained from the population clock on the date shown in the citation.</ref> AustraliaIt is the 56th54th<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/population-by-country.htm|title=Population Figures for all Countries of the World (latest) - Nations Online Project}}</ref> most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas, particularly on the Eastern, South Eastern and Southern seaboards, and is expected to exceed 30 million by 2029.<ref>{{cite news|title=Australia's population forecast to hit 30 million by 2029|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/22/australias-population-forecast-to-hit-30-million-by-2029|access-date=16 March 2023|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 November 2018}}</ref>
 
Australia's population has grown from an estimated population of between 300,000 and 2,400,000 [[Indigenous Australians]] at the time of British colonisation in 1788 due to [[Immigration to Australia|numerous waves of immigration]] during the period since. Also due to immigration, the European component's share of the population rose sharply in the late 18th and 19th centuries, but is now declining as a percentage.<ref name="aphmigr">{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Janet |last2=Simon-Davies |first2=Joanne |title=Migration—Australian migration flows and population |url=https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook45p/MigrationFlows |publisher=Australian Parliamentary Library |access-date=21 April 2019 |language=en-AU}}</ref>
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| scope="row" | 1975 <ref>[https://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/8DFF9A3223E8C7DCCA2576EF0012911F/$File/31010_12_1980.pdf www.abs.gov.au; Australian Demographic Statistics Quarterly, Dec 1980; visited September 17 2023]</ref>
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* [https://archive.today/20150220095949/http://itbulk.org/population/population-projection-by-country/ Build Australian population projection graph till 2100 (United Nation data)]
* [https://archive.today/20150404121433/http://itbulk.org/population/life-expectancy-by-country/ Build Australian life expectancy at birth graph 1950 – 2013 (United Nation data)]
* [https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument Australia's population clock]
 
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