Australia

Interesting Facts About Australia

• Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent, yet is also a megadiverse country with deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast
• Australia has a population of approximately 27.7 million people, making it the 54th most populous country in the world
• Despite its massive land area, Australia is one of the most sparsely populated countries with only 3.4 persons per square kilometre
• 67% of Australia's population lives in metropolitan areas, with five cities having populations larger than one million: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide
• Immigrants account for 30% of Australia's population, the highest proportion among major Western nations, with Asia being the largest source of immigrants in the 21st century
• At the 2021 census, 57.2% of Australians nominated European ancestry, while 33.8% nominated Oceanian ancestry
• Australia has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with 212,789 permanent migrants admitted in 2022-23

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