Jordanian Australian

Jordanian Australian
Total population
4,621 (Jordan-born) (2011 Census) 4,218 (Jordanian ancestry) (2011 Census)
Regions with significant populations
New South Wales	3,047
Languages
Australian English, Arabic
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Arab Australians

A Jordanian Australian is an Australian citizen of Jordanian descent or a Jordan-born person who resides in Australia. According to Australia's 2011 Census there were a total of 4,621 Jordan-born people in Australia,^[1] an increase of 24.2 per cent from the 2006 Census (3,397).^[2] The vast majority of Jordanian Australians reside in the state of New South Wales.

Notably immigration from Jordan is one of the most recent in Australia.

History

References

^ Australian Government - Department of Immigration and Border Protection. "Jordanian Australians". Retrieved 14 January 2014.
^ "20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia" (Microsoft Excel download). 2006 Census. Total responses: 25,451,383 for total count of persons: 19,855,288.

Jordanian diaspora

Australia Canada Pakistan United Arab Emirates United States

Arab Australians

Western Asia	Emirati Iraqi Jordanian Kuwaiti Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Syrian

North Africa	Egyptian Somali Sudanese

Ancestry of Australians

Cultural background of both the Australian-born and overseas-born populations
italics: over 300,000 responses to ancestry question on the 2011 census

Australia

Europe

European Union	Anglo-Celtic (British-Irish) British (Cornish, English, Manx, Scottish and Welsh) Dutch English German Greek Irish Italian Scottish Austrian Belgian Bulgarian Croatian Cypriot Czech Danish Estonian French Finnish Hungarian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovene Spanish Swedish

Albanian Belarusian Bosnian Icelandic Kosovan Macedonian Montenegrin Norwegian Russian Serbian Swiss Ukrainian

Asia-Pacific

New Zealanders and Pacific Islanders
- Fijian
- New Zealander
  - Māori
- Samoan
- South Sea Islander
- Tongan

Arab
- Emirati
- Iraqi
- Jordanian
- Kuwaiti
- Lebanese
- Palestinian
- Saudi
- Syrian

Africa

Americas

according to Reflecting a Nation: Stories from the 2011 Census, 2012–2013 and 2011 Census data shows more than 300 ancestries reported in Australia

Categories

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Jordanian Australian