There are approximately 15,000 Australians living, working and studying in
There are now 1.4 million Australians of Chinese ancestry, or 5.5 per cent of the population, making the demographic increasingly important at both state and federal elections.
There are in June 2022 9,437 resident Australians in Japan.
Australia is about 1.2 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 80.66% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Australia).
China is Australia's largest two-way trading partner in goods and services, accounting for nearly one third (32.2 per cent) of our trade with the world.
Both countries are actively engaged economically, culturally and politically which spans numerous organisations such as APEC, East Asia Summit and the G20. China is Australia's largest trading partner, and has invested in Australian mining companies.
94% of China's population lives east of the Heihe–Tengchong Line. West of the line: 57% of the area; only 6% of the population. East of the line: 43% of the area; 94% of the population. The line roughly demarcates historic Han China from territories occupied by force.
At the end of June 2021, 595,630 Chinese-born people were living in Australia, 53.7 per cent more than the number (387,420) at 30 June 2011.
At the 2021 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: English (21.8%) Australian (20.4%) Chinese (11.6%)
The latest Census in 2016 recorded 86,125 United States of America-born people in Australia, an increase of 11.8 per cent from the 2011 Census.
The 2021 Australian Census estimates 105,560 Koreans living in Australia, the 15th-largest overseas-born population.
The Yamato people are the dominant native ethnic group of Japan and because of their numbers, the term Yamato is often used interchangeably with the term Japanese.
Islam has grown to 813,392 people, which is 3.2 per cent of the Australian population.
As per the 2021 census, 424,750 people stated that they had Greek ancestry (whether alone or in combination with another ancestry), comprising 1.7% of the Australian population. At the 2021 census, 92,314 Australian residents were born in Greece. Greek Australian christening party, at Bondi Beach 1946.
In the 2021 census, the most commonly nominated individual ancestries as a proportion of the total population were: English (33%) Australian (29.9%) Irish (9.5%)
According to the 2021 Census, the Chinese ethnic group in England and Wales numbered 445,646, or 0.7% of the population. British Chinese live in every major British city, most notably including Greater London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Sheffield.
According to the China National Bureau of Statistics, as of the end of 2019, there were 2.77 million foreigners living in China.
An estimate published in 2018 counted 600,000 people of other nations living in China, with 12% of those from the US; that means approximately 72,000 Americans living in China.
China has astonishingly few foreign-born residents. Of its 1.4bn people, around 1m, or just 0.1%, are immigrants. That compares with shares of 15% in America, 19% in Germany and 30% in Australia.
Since that time, United States has been the most important security ally. The close security relationship with the United States was formalized in 1951 by the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security (ANZUS) Treaty which remains the cornerstone of Australian security arrangements.
A high proportion of Chinese growth has been engineered by a large government-sponsored debt-fuelled infrastructure and property bender. This underpins demand for Australian products and services boosting incomes. The data on bilateral trade reveals the importance of the China relationship.
China is Australia's greatest two-way trading partner in products and services, making up close to one-third of the nation's international trade, as per the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Commerce. Australia, on the other hand, is China's fifth biggest source of imports and 10th largest export market.