Australian Census 2021

Data from the 2021 Australian Census is being released today. So far there are two big takeaways. First, the millennnial generation is becoming the largest population group:

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New data released on Tuesday from the latest census shows that Australia’s millennial generation is becoming the nation’s largest, displacing the postwar baby boomers. Both demographic groups comprise 5.4 million people but the 2021 statistics reflect a diminishing number of “boomers” compared with the 2016 survey. Defined as the generation of people born between 1946 and 1964, the number of baby boomers fell from 25.4% to 21.5% of the overall population. Millennials, born between 1981 and 1996, increased from 20.4% to 21.5%. In 1966, baby boomers made up nearly 40% of all Australians. The national population as of 2021 grew by about 2 million people to 25.4 million since the last census.

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Second, for the first time ever, less than half of Australians identified as Christian:

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For the first time, fewer than half of Australians identified as Christian, though Christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population). Meanwhile, the number of Australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).

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More detailed info is available at the website of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. There are some interesting tidbits to be found. For example, the fifth top language spoken in the home in my own Territory (after Mandarin, Arabic, Vietnamese and Cantonese) is Nepali.

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