Editing Queensland (section)

===Ancestry and immigration===
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|+Country of Birth (2016)<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au">{{cite web |title=2016 Census Community Profiles |url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/communityprofile/3?opendocument |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622052159/https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/communityprofile/3%3Fopendocument |archive-date=22 June 2019 |access-date=28 May 2020 |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics}}</ref><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au">{{cite web |title=2016 Census of Population and Housing: General Community Profile |url=https://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/CensusOutput/copsub2016.NSF/All%20docs%20by%20catNo/2016~Community%20Profile~3/$File/GCP_3.zip?OpenElement |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222045156/https://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/CensusOutput/copsub2016.NSF/All%20docs%20by%20catNo/2016~Community%20Profile~3/$File/GCP_3.zip?OpenElement |archive-date=22 December 2020 |access-date=31 May 2020 |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |format=ZIP}}</ref>
! Birthplace{{refn|group="N"|In accordance with the Australian Bureau of Statistics source, England, [[Scotland]], [[Mainland China]] and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and [[Macau]] are listed separately}} !! Population
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| Australia ||3,343,657
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| New Zealand ||201,206
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| England ||180,775 <!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| [[India]] ||49,145
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| [[Mainland China]] ||47,114 <!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| South Africa ||40,131
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| [[Philippines]] ||39,661
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| Scotland ||21,882 <!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| Germany ||20,387
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| [[Vietnam]] ||19,544
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| [[South Korea]] ||18,327
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| United States ||17,053
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| [[Papua New Guinea]] ||16,120
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| [[Taiwan]] ||15,592<!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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Early settlers during the 19th century were largely [[English Australians|English]], [[Irish Australians|Irish]], [[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] and [[German Australians|German]], while there was a wave of immigration from [[Southern Europe|southern]] and eastern Europe (most notably [[Italian Australian|Italy]]) in the decades following the [[World War II|second world war]]. In the 21st century, [[Asian Australians|Asia]] (most notably [[Chinese Australian|China]] and [[Indian Australian|India]]) has been the primary source of immigration.

At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:{{refn|group="N"|As a percentage of 4,348,289 persons who nominated their ancestry at the 2016 census.}}<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/> <!-- Only ancestries with >1% are listed. Do not use the QuickStats data from ABS for ancestries. Use the full ancestry data series (eg from ABS Community Profiles series) as the QuickStats data shows each ancestry as a percentage of all ancestry responses (where each person can list up to two, thus a far greater number than the total population) while the full data series in the ABS Community Profiles show the percentage of people nominating a given ancestry as a percentage of the population who nominated an ancestry -->
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* [[English Australians|English]] (41.3%)
* Australian (37.9%){{refn|group="N"|The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry are part of the [[Anglo-Celtic Australian|Anglo-Celtic]] group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182!OpenDocument|title=Feature Article – Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Australia (Feature Article)|date=January 1995|publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics|access-date=28 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420205113/https://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182%21OpenDocument|archive-date=20 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
* [[Irish Australians|Irish]] (13%)
* [[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] (11.2%)
* [[German Australians|German]] (6.8%)
* [[Indigenous Australians|Indigenous]] (4%){{refn|group="N"|Of any ancestry. Includes those identifying as [[Aboriginal Australians]] or [[Torres Strait Islanders]]. Indigenous identification is separate from the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.}}
* [[Chinese Australians|Chinese]] (3.1%)
* [[Italian Australians|Italian]] (3%)
* [[Indian Australians|Indian]] (1.7%)
* [[Dutch Australians|Dutch]] (1.6%)
* [[New Zealand Australians|New Zealander]] (1.6%)
* [[Māori Australians|Maori]] (1.2%)
* [[Filipino Australians|Filipino]] (1.2%)
}}

The 2016 census showed that 28.9% of Queensland's inhabitants were [[Immigration to Australia|born overseas]]. Only 54.8% of inhabitants had both parents born in Australia, with the next most common birthplaces being New Zealand, England, [[India]], [[Mainland China]] and South Africa.<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/> Brisbane has the [[Foreign born#Metropolitan and Urban regions with largest foreign-born populations|26th largest immigrant population]] among world metropolitan areas.

4% of the population, or 186,482 people, identified as [[Indigenous Australians]] ([[Aboriginal Australians]] and [[Torres Strait Islanders]]) in 2016.{{refn|group="N"|Of any ancestry. Includes those identifying as [[Aboriginal Australians]] or [[Torres Strait Islanders]]. Indigenous identification is separate from the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.}}<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>