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Census of Population and Housing - Counts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
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20 June 2023
Census of Population and Housing - Counts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
812,728 people identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in 2021 – up from 649,171 in 2016
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represented 3.2% of the total population – up from 2.8% in 2016
Nearly two-thirds of people lived in NSW (34.2%) and Queensland (29.2%) in 2021
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2021
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