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In 2018, there were 7.3 million migrants living in Australia. This was 29% of the population that were born overseas. One year earlier, in 2017, there were 7.1 million people born overseas.
Every single country from around the world was represented in Australia's population in 2018. People born in:
England (992,000) continue to be the largest group of overseas-born living in Australia. However, this has dropped from a peak of just over a million (1,013,000 people) in 2013
China (651,000) remained in second place from 2017 with strong growth since 2002
India (592,000) moved into third place dropping the New Zealand born (568,000) down to fourth place
Australia (17.7 million) had increased 188,000 during the year.