African Australians

This article is about Australians of Sub-Saharan African descent. For North Africans, see North African and Middle Eastern Australians.

African Australians
Total population
326,673 (2021 census)
1.3% of Australia's population
Victoria 90,640 (1.47%)
New South Wales 75,942 (1.02%)
Western Australia 66,744 (2.61%)
Queensland 64,112 (1.32%)
South Australia 17,607 (1.03%)
Northern Territory 2,660 (1.08%)
Australian Capital Territory 5,504 (1.37%)
Tasmania 3,434 (0.66%)
Languages
Religion

African Australians are Australians descended from any peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa, including naturalised Australians who are immigrants from various regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and descendants of such immigrants. At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within Sub-Saharan African ancestral groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to 1.3%. Note that Australian official statistics are based on country of origin not race; hence, Sub-Saharan African immigrants of European descent (such as White South Africans) and their descendants are included as African Australians.

Large-scale immigration from the regions of Africa south of the Sahara to Australia is only a recent phenomenon, with Europe and Asia traditionally being the largest sources of migration to Australia. African Australians come from diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, educational and employment backgrounds.

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