Editing Sydney (section)

===Ancestry and immigration===
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|+ Country of birth (2021)<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/community-profiles/2021/1GSYD|title=2021 Greater Sydney, Census Community Profiles |website=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=2 July 2022}}</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 ||2,970,737
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| [[Mainland China]] ||238,316 <!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| India||187,810
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| England ||153,052<!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| Vietnam||93,778
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| Philippines||91,339
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| New Zealand ||85,493
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| Lebanon ||61,620
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| Nepal ||59,055
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| Iraq ||52,604
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| South Korea ||50,702
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| Hong Kong SAR ||46,182 <!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| South Africa ||39,564
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| Italy ||38,762
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| Indonesia ||35,413
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| Malaysia ||35,002
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| Fiji ||34,197
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| Pakistan ||31,025
|}
At the 2021 census, the most common ancestries were:<ref name="auto"/> <!-- Only ancestries with >1% are listed. -->
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* [[English Australians|English]] (21.8%)
* [[Australians|Australian]] (20.4%){{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)|author=Dr James Jupp|website=www.abs.gov.au|date=January 1995}}</ref>}}
* [[Chinese Australians|Chinese]] (11.6%)
* [[Irish Australians|Irish]] (7.2%)
* [[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] (5.6%)
* [[Indian Australians|Indian]] (4.9%)
* [[Italian Australians|Italian]] (4.3%)
* [[Lebanese Australians|Lebanese]] (3.5%)
* [[Filipino Australians|Filipino]] (2.7%)
* [[Greek Australians|Greek]] (2.6%)
* [[Vietnamese Australians|Vietnamese]] (2.5%)
* [[German Australians|German]] (2.2%)
* [[Korean Australians|Korean]] (1.4%)
* [[Nepalese Australians|Nepalese]] (1.4%)
* [[Aboriginal Australians|Australian Aboriginal]] (1.4%){{refn|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.}}
* [[Maltese Australians|Maltese]] (1.1%)
}}

At the 2021 census, 40.5%<!-- This is correct. Australian born minus total persons doesn't equal overseas born, as 5% didn't state their place of birth. --> of Sydney's population was born overseas. Foreign countries of birth with the greatest representation are mainland China, India, England, Vietnam, Philippines and New Zealand.<ref name="auto" />

At the 2021 census, 1.7% of Sydney's population identified as being [[Indigenous Australians|Indigenous]] — [[Aboriginal Australians]] and [[Torres Strait Islanders]].{{refn|group="N"|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="auto1">{{Cite web |title=2021 Greater Sydney, Census All persons QuickStats &#124; Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/1GSYD |access-date=2 July 2022 |website=Abs.gov.au}}</ref>