Indian migrants will become majority in Australia by 2025
by Christine M - April 19, 2010
Australia, 19th April: According to a latest research by Macroplan Australia, increasing Australian immigration would contribute towards making Indian migrants in Australia a majority by 2025.
This means that Australian-born families will become a minority in the coming 15 years. The survey conducted by a consulting firm Macroplan Australia says that there has been an increase in Australian immigration in the recent years with large number of migrants coming to Australia from China and India.
The survey also maintained that apart from India and China, an increased number of immigrants were coming from European countries as well. The figures reveal that nearly 14.2 percent migrants came from Britain, 11.4 percent from New Zealand, 11.2 percent from India, 10.5 percent from China, 5.3 percent from South Africa and 4.1 percent from Philippines.
The reason behind the migrants in Australia overtaking Australian-born people in next 15 years is not just due to high rate of immigration in Australia, but also due to an ageing Australian population and it is being stated that the changes in Australian population are taking place quite earlier than predicted.
40 percent of Australian population was either foreign born or had at least one foreign-born parent, the figures from 2006 census show. Going by the current levels of immigration in Australia, the percentage will increase to 50 percent by the year 2025.
Australians don’t want any increase in population and the figures are going to make them angry since many say that population in Australia is already quite big, thereby putting severe strain on the nation’s infrastructure.
Meanwhile, experts say that migrant majority in Australia will be good for Australian attitudes and culture. Immigration makes us open to new ideas and makes us more opportunistic and less blinkered, said a demographer at KPMG, Bernard Salt.
CEO of Macroplan, Brian Haratsis says that immigration is vital for Australia for some good economic reasons and if we don’t allow immigration into Australia, we will have to pay higher taxes.
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