African Australians

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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
Australian English African languages
Religion
Christianity Islam traditional African religions

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.