Editing Demographics of Macau (section)

===Place of birth===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|+Population of Macau according to place of birth 1981-2021
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! rowspan="2" | Place of birth
! colspan="2" |1981 census<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.dsec.gov.mo/getAttachment/55da0a93-5b90-4094-94e8-46a7387997cd/P_CEN_PUB_1981_Y.aspx |title=XII Recenseamento geral da populaçao - 1981 alguns resultados |trans-title=XII General Population Census - 1981 Select Results |date=c. 1982 |page=48 |language=Portuguese |access-date=2025-03-13}}</ref>
! colspan="2" | 1991 census
! colspan="2" | 2001 census
! colspan="2" | 2011 census
! colspan="2" | 2021 census
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
!Number
!%
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
!Number
!%
|-
| align="left" |Macau 
|96,117
|39.8|| 142,697|| 40.1|| 191,139|| 43.9|| 226,127||40.9
|281,381
|41.3
|-
| align="left" | [[Mainland China]]
|118,177
|48.9|| 179,028|| 50.3|| 206,384|| 47.4|| 255,186||46.2
|298,887
|43.8
|-
| align="left" | [[Hong Kong]]
|13,118
|5.4|| 12,192|| 3.4|| 14,436|| 3.3|| 19,355||3.5
|22,199
|3.3
|-
| align="left" |  [[Portugal]] 
|1,037
|0.4|| 3,625|| 1.0|| 1,616|| 0.4|| 1,835||0.3
|2,213
|0.3
|-
| align="left" |[[Philippines]]
|
|
|1,965
|0.6
|5,311
|1.2
|14,544
|2.6
|32,900
|4.8
|-
| align="left" |Others
|13,280
|5.5
|16,186
|4.6
|16,349
|3.8
|35,456
|6.4
|44,490
|6.5
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! align="left" | Total 
! colspan="2" |241,729|| colspan="2" | 355,693|| colspan="2" | 435,235|| colspan="2" | 552,503
! colspan="2" |682,070
|}Immigration is an essential component of the population. Results of the 2011 Population Census indicated that 326,376 (59.1% of the total population) were born outside Macau, an increase of 3.0 percentage points over the last ten years. Analysed by place of birth, 255,186 (46.2%) were born in Mainland China, down by 1.2 percentage points from 2001.  226,127 (40.9%) were born in Macau, 19,355 (3.5%) in Hong Kong and 1,835 (0.3%) in Portugal. There were more persons born in other countries or territories as the number of non-resident workers increased. Among them, 14,544 were born in the Philippines, 7,199 in Vietnam and 6,269 in Indonesia, altogether taking up 5.1% of the total population. 1,942 were born in Europe other than Portugal, 2,252 in Americas, 959 in Africa and 672 in Oceania. Analysed by age group, 85.2% of the youth population (aged 0–14) were born in Macau, and 62.9% of those aged 35 and above were born in Mainland China.

{{Asof|2011}} 35,578 people in Macau were originally from Fujian province in Mainland China, making up about 25% of the Mainland China-born people. The number of Fujianese in Macau increased after the 1999 handover.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 12, 2015 |title=Macau: The rise and fall of an empire? |url=http://multimedia.scmp.com/macau/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707122448/http://multimedia.scmp.com/macau/ |archive-date=July 7, 2016 |access-date=August 15, 2016 |work=[[South China Morning Post]]}} ()</ref>