Editing Immigration to Australia (section)

=== Overview ===
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|+Foreign-born Australian residents by country of birth<ref>{{Cite web|last=Commonwealth Parliament|first=Canberra|title=Population and migration statistics in Australia|url=https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1819/Quick_Guides/PopulationStatistics|access-date=2020-07-22|website=www.aph.gov.au|language=en-AU|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803154740/https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1819/Quick_Guides/PopulationStatistics/|url-status=live}}</ref>
!'''#'''
! colspan="2" |1901
! colspan="2" |1954
! colspan="2" |2016
|-
|1.
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
|495 504
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[United Kingdom]]
|616 532
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[United Kingdom]]
|1 087 756
|-
|2.
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|Ireland]]
|184 085
|{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Italy]]
|119 897
|{{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand]]
|518 462
|-
|3.
|{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[German Empire]]
|38 352
|{{flagicon|Germany}} [[West Germany|Germany]]
|65 422
|{{flagicon|China}} [[China]]
|509 558
|-
|4.
|{{flagicon|Qing Empire}} [[Qing Empire|China]]
|29 907
|{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]]
|56 594
|{{flagicon|India}} [[India]]
|455 385
|-
|5.
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[Colony of New Zealand|New Zealand]] 
|25 788
|{{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Netherlands]]
|52 035
|{{flagicon|Philippines}} [[Philippines]]
|232 391
|-
|6.
|{{flagicon|Sweden|1844}}{{flagicon|Norway|1901}} [[Sweden-Norway]]
|9 863
|{{flagicon|Ireland}} [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
|47 673
|{{flagicon|Vietnam}} [[Vietnam]]
|219 351
|-
|7.
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[South Sea Islanders|South Sea Islands]]
|9 128
|{{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand]]
|43 350
|{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Italy]]
|174 042
|-
|8.
|{{flagicon|British Raj}} [[British Raj]]
|7 637
|{{flagicon|Greece|old}} [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]]
|25 862
|{{flagicon|South Africa}} [[South Africa]]
|162 450
|-
|9.
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[United States]]
|7 448
|{{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
|22 856
|{{flagicon|Malaysia}} [[Malaysia]]
|138 363
|-
|10.
|{{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Denmark]]
|6 281
|{{flagicon|Malta|colonial}} [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]]
|19 988
|{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Sri Lanka]]
|109 850
|-
| - 
|Other
|47 463
|Other
|215 589
|Other
|2 542 443
|}