Hong Kong Australians

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Hong Kong Australians
香港裔澳洲人 (Chinese)
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Flag of Australia (converted).svg
Total population
100,148 (by birth, 2021 census) [1] (excluding descendants who were born in Australia, and first-generation immigrants who were born elsewhere)
Regions with significant populations
Flag of New South Wales.svg New South Wales
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Victoria
Flag of Queensland.svg Queensland
Languages
Cantonese, English, Standard Mandarin
Religion
Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian or Non-religious; Roman Catholic, Protestant, etc.
Related ethnic groups
Hongkongers, Chinese Australians

Hong Kong Australians are Australian citizens or permanent residents of Hong Kong descent. Many Hong Kong Australians hold dual citizenship of Australia and China. [2]

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Description

The predominant language among Hongkongers is Cantonese, a variety of Chinese originating in Guangdong. It is spoken by 93.7% of the population Slightly over half the population (58.7%) speaks English, the other official language; 4.6% are native speakers, and 54.1% speak English as a second language. [3] Code-switching, mixing English and Cantonese in informal conversation, is common among the bilingual population. [4] Post-handover governments have promoted Mandarin, which is currently about as prevalent as English; 54.2% of the population speak Mandarin, with 2.3% native speakers, and 51.9% as a second language. [3]

Hong Kong permanent residents can come from a variety of ethnicities. The overwhelming majority (91.6%) is Han Chinese, most of whom are Taishanese, Teochew, Hakka, and other Cantonese peoples. [3] [5]

History

People born in Hong Kong as a percentage of the population in Sydney divided geographically by postal area, as of the 2011 census. Australian Census 2011 demographic map - Inner Sydney by POA - BCP field 1536 Hong Kong SAR of China Total.svg
People born in Hong Kong as a percentage of the population in Sydney divided geographically by postal area, as of the 2011 census.

According to the 2021 Australian census, 100,148 Australians were born in Hong Kong; [1] a figure that would exclude first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong who were born elsewhere (mainly Guangdong), as well as descendants of immigrants who were born in Australia. The corresponding figure on ancestry was not collected. [6]

Notable Hong Kong Australians

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "2021 Cultural diversity data summary". www.censusdata.abs.gov.au.
  2. ↑ "Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)". www.hklii.hk. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Main Results" (PDF). 2021 Population By-Census (Report). Census and Statistics Department. 2021. p. 46. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Lee, John (2012). A Corpus-Based Analysis of Mixed Code in Hong Kong Speech. International Conference on Asian Language Processing. pp. 165–168. ISBN   978-1-4673-6113-2.
  5. ↑ Carroll, John (2007). A Concise History of Hong Kong. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 144–147. ISBN   978-0-7425-3422-3.
  6. ↑ "20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia" (XLS). 2006 Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved 6 January 2010: Total responses: 25,451,383 for total count of persons: 19,855,288.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[ dead link ]


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