Recently the topic of the total proportion of the population made up by migrants has been making headlines in the United States, Britain and parts of Europe.
This prompted quite the level of conversation on social media, so I thought it would be interesting to see where Australia stands both relative to itself historically and relative to other nations in the present.
Before we get into the numbers, it’s worth noting that due to methodology differences, the U.N. data undercounts the proportion of the Australian population that is migrants compared with the ABS.