500,000
The population grew because many people sought their fortunes on the goldfields. Many people migrated from other countries to wherever gold was found.
The richest goldfields were located in Victoria which is why the Chinese migrated there. Between the years 1851 and 1861 almost 30,000 Chinese migrated to Victoria.
In 1848 there was 10,000 people living there and at 1849 their gold rush attracted many people and they zoomed from 14,000 to 100,000.
Two million people
Hundreds of thousands of people have migrated to Scandinavia over history.
They left for California in hopes of starting a new life.
it was a tale-tale for many people who migrated to the west!
No, people did not migrate to Oklahoma, a lot of people migrated from Oklahoma.During the dust bowl people from Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado migrated to California.
Thousands and thousands from around the world migrated to Australia in 2008.
Uh, I think one of them is the gold rush. The gold rush in California was from 1848 to about 1854 and loads of people migrated to California because of it, so probably this was one of the reasons?