most of our population immigrated here within the last 200 years..
the indigenous population is roughly the same 300 years ago as it is this very day...
istoric population (Estimated) [21][22]
Year Indigenous population
pre 1788 750,000 to 1,000,000 [23]
Year Non Indigenous population
1788 859
1798 4,588
1808 10,263
1818 25,859
1828 58,197
1838 151,868
1848 332,328
1858 1,050,828
1868 1,539,552
1878 2,092,164
1888 2,981,677
1898 3,664,715
Year Total population
1901 3,788,123
1906 4,059,083
1911 4,489,545
1916 4,943,173
1921 5,455,136
1926 6,056,360
1931 6,526,485
1936 6,778,372
1941 7,109,898
1946 7,465,157
1951 8,421,775
1956 9,425,563
1961 10,548,267
1966 11,599,498
1971 13,067,265
1976 14,033,083
1981 14,923,260
1986 16,018,350
1991 17,284,036
1996 18,310,714
2001 19,413,240
2006 20,848,760