Afghan Australian

Afghan Australian

Infobox Ethnic group
group= Afghan Australian flagicon|Afghanistan|size=30x15px flagicon|Australia|size=30x15px


caption = Notable Afghan Australians :
poptime= Afghan 33,416 (by ancestry, 2006) 16,751 (by birth, 2006). "'
langs = Persian
rels = Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism
related =

Afghan Australians are residents of Australia who are of Afghan ancestry.

According to the 2006 Australian census 16,751 Australians were born in outside of Australiacite web| url = http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ViewData?action=404&documentproductno=0&documenttype=Details&order=1&tabname=Details&areacode=0&issue=2006&producttype=Census%20Tables&javascript=true&textversion=false&navmapdisplayed=true&breadcrumb=POLTD&&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Country%20of%20Birth%20of%20Person%20(full%20classification%20list)%20by%20Sex&producttype=Census%20Tables&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&topic=Birthplace& |title = 20680-Country of Birth of Person (full classification list) by Sex - Australia|format = Microsoft Excel download |publisher = Australian Bureau of Statistics | work = 2006 Census| accessdate = 2008-06-02 Total count of persons: 19,855,288. ] while 19,416 claimed Afghan ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.cite web| url = http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ViewData?breadcrumb=POLTD&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&subaction=-1&issue=2006&producttype=Census%20Tables&documentproductno=0&textversion=false&documenttype=Details&collection=Census&javascript=true&topic=Ancestry&action=404&productlabel=Ancestry%20(full%20classification%20list)%20by%20Sex&order=1&period=2006&tabname=Details&areacode=0&navmapdisplayed=true& | title = 20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia| format = Microsoft Excel download |publisher = Australian Bureau of Statistics | work = 2006 Census| accessdate = 2008-06-02 Total responses: 25,451,383 for total count of persons: 19,855,288.]

Islam is the declared religion of most Afghan Australians, 15,961 or 95%.cite web|url = http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/5618AB4511347DC2CA257306000D44C2/$File/2914055002_2006%20(Reissue).xls |format = Excel download| title = 2914.0.55.002 2006 Census Ethnic Media Package| date = 2007-06-27|accessdate = 2008-07-14|publisher = Australian Bureau of Statistics|work = Census Dictionary, 2006 (cat.no 2901.0)]

Various Persian dialects are spoken at home by two thirds of people (11,066) of Afghan heritage, whilst Pashto and other Iranian Languages language and various Turkic languages are also spoken..

Australian residents at the time of the 2006 Census who were born in Afghanistan arrived mostly in the 1990s (5,707) and since 2000 (8,554). Very few had arrived before 1979 (149). 9,356 (56%) had acquired Australian citizenship.

Notable Afghan Australians

See also

*Afghan (Australia) - Muslim camel drivers who worked in outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s, not all of whom came from Afghanistan

References


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