Ethnicity in Australia
At the 2021 census, the ancestry responses categorised within European ancestral groups as a proportion of the total population amounted 57.2% (46% North-West European and 11.2% Southern and Eastern European), Asian ancestral groups amounted 17.4% (6.5% Southern and Central Asian, 6.4% North-East Asian and 4.5% South-East Asian), North African and Middle Eastern groups amounted 3.2%, Peoples of the Americas amounted 1.4% and Sub-Saharan African groups amounted 1.3%. Also at the 2021 census, 3.2% of the Australian population identified as being Indigenous — Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. The Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Indigenous Australians, with 26.3% of the population identifying as beign Indigenous.