{"id":315102,"date":"2017-06-29T20:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/asian-immigrants-outnumber-europeans-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:55:41","slug":"asian-immigrants-outnumber-europeans-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/asian-immigrants-outnumber-europeans-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Immigrants Outnumber Europeans for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>It has been a direction the country has been intentionally steering towards for decades, however now it seems Australia can truly call itself an \u2018Asian Nation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 census figures reveal that China, India and the Philippines now account for more foreign-born residents than the traditional birthplaces of England, New Zealand and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The census reports that more than a quarter of Australians \u2013 26.3 per cent, up from 24.6 per cent in 2011 \u2013 were born overseas in 2016, and even second-generation Aussies will soon be the minority.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of Australian residents had at least one parent who hailed from a different country.<\/p>\n<p>In the five-year gap between 2011 and 2016, an additional 1.3 million new migrants \u2013 mostly from China and India \u2013 called Australia home. As a whole, Australia experienced an 8.8 per cent population increase since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants now make up 28 per cent of the populations of New South Wales and Victoria, and 32 per cent of the population in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania is the least migrant-populated state, at 12 per cent, and recorded the highest English-speaking only population of 88 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also been an increase in the number of Australians shying away from religion.<\/p>\n<p>Up from 22 per cent in 2011, 30 per cent of the population identified as having \u2018no religion\u2019 in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>But, while Australians are turning away from Christian religions (Catholic and Anglican being two of the biggest), there\u2019s been a massive leap in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/asian-immigrants-outnumber-europeans-for-the-first-time\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a direction the country has been intentionally steering towards for decades, however now it seems Australia can truly call itself an \u2018Asian Nation\u2019. The 2016 census figures reveal that China, India and the Philippines now account for more foreign-born residents than the traditional birthplaces of England, New Zealand and Europe. The census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}