Editing Tasmania (section)

===Ancestry and immigration===
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|+ Country of Birth (2021)<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au">{{cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/community-profiles/2021/6|title=2021 Census Community Profiles: Tasmania|website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au|access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au">{{cite web|title=Census 2016|url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/CensusOutput/copsub2016.NSF/All%20docs%20by%20catNo/2016~Community%20Profile~6/$File/GCP_6.zip?OpenElement|access-date=26 June 2020|archive-date=11 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111183820/https://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/CensusOutput/copsub2016.NSF/All%20docs%20by%20catNo/2016~Community%20Profile~6/$File/GCP_6.zip?OpenElement|url-status=live}}</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 || 440,818
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| England || 19,283 <!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| [[Mainland China]] || 6,830 <!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
|-
| Nepal || 6,219
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| India || 6,137
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| New Zealand || 5,483
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| Philippines || 2,441
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| Scotland || 2,280
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| Netherlands || 2,136
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| South Africa || 2,089
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| Germany || 2,087
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| United States || 2,056
|}

At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:{{refn|group="N"|As a percentage of 475,884 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]] (47.7%)
* [[Australians|Australian]] (46.3%){{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=http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182!OpenDocument|title=Feature Article – Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Australia (Feature Article)|website=www.abs.gov.au|date=January 1995|access-date=22 June 2019|archive-date=20 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420205113/http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182%21OpenDocument|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
* [[Irish Australians|Irish]] (11.7%)
* [[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] (10%)
* [[Indigenous Australians|Indigenous]] (4.6%){{refn|group="N"|Of any ancestry. Includes those identifying as [[Aboriginal Australians]] or [[Torres Strait Islanders]]. Indigenous identification is separate to the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.}}
* [[German Australians|German]] (3.9%)
* [[Dutch Australians|Dutch]] (2.2%)
* [[Italian Australians|Italian]] (1.5%)
* [[Chinese Australians|Chinese]] (1.5%)
}}

19.3% of the population was born overseas at the 2016 census. The five largest groups of overseas-born were from England (3.7%), New Zealand (1%), [[Mainland China]] (0.6%), Scotland (0.4%) and the Netherlands (0.4%).<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>

4.6% of the population, or 23,572 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 to 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"/>