What is the total population of Australia 202 1?

The population of mainland Australia is about 25.62 million.

Among them, 74% are British and Irish, 5.6% are Chinese, 2.8% are indigenous, and other ethnic groups are mainly Italians, Germans and Indians. The official language is English, and Chinese is the second most common language besides English. About 63.9% residents believe in Christianity, and 5.9% residents believe in Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and other religions. The population with no religious belief or unknown religious belief accounts for 30.2%.

The earliest aborigines in Australia now account for less than 1% of the total population. In the 2006 census, whites accounted for 92%. Most Australians originated from 19 and British immigrants in the 20th century, and many came from other countries.

The development of history

The word Australia, originally meaning "southern continent", was changed from the Latin terraaustralis (southern land). When Europeans discovered this continent in the17th century, they mistakenly thought it was a land that went straight to the South Pole, so they named it "Australia".

As early as more than 40,000 years ago, the aborigines lived and multiplied in this land of Australia, and the total number of aborigines in Australia was 413,000 (data of 5438+0 census in 2006).

1606, Spanish navigator Luis Vaezde Torres sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea. In the same year, Duyfken of the Dutchman William Jane set foot in Australia, which was the first recorded foreigner to actually land in Australia, and named this place "New Holland".