Australia: African and Caribbean population
As of 2021, an estimated 327,000 people of African heritage (1.3% of the population) live in Australia, based on official national statistics.
How this is counted
ABS Census 2021 (total population: 25,422,788). African figure = 326,673 ancestry responses categorised within Sub-Saharan African ancestral groups (1.3% of population). Note: ABS collects ancestry and country of birth, not race or ethnic group. The Sub-Saharan African count includes White South Africans and other non-Black Africans born in sub-Saharan Africa. Caribbean figure: no comparable 2021 ancestry total is published by ABS. Wikipedia cites 4,242 Caribbean-ancestry responses in the 2006 Census and approximately 10,500 people born in Caribbean countries as of 2021 (country-of-birth series), but neither figure constitutes an authoritative 2021 ancestry count. Caribbean population in Australia is very small and not separately reported in ABS cultural diversity releases.
Source: Australia official statistics.
Common questions
How many people of African descent live in Australia?
As of 2021, an estimated 327,000 people of African heritage live in Australia (1.3% of the population), based on official national statistics.
How many Caribbean people live in Australia?
Australia does not publish a comparable count of people of Caribbean heritage.