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Australia has no official language and no declared national language. English is the default language throughout the country.
According to the official CIA World factbook, English is spoken by 78.5% of Australia's population. After English, Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Arabic, Mandarin and Vietnamese, in that order, are the most widely-spoken languages, and languages of most cultures are represented and spoken by Australians.
The CIA World Factbook lists, after English: Chinese 2.5%, Italian 1.6%, Greek 1.3%, Arabic 1.2% and Vietnamese 1%.
Another 8.2% have been recorded as speaking other languages, and 5.7 % are unspecified. These include indigenous Australian languages, spoken, as well as English, by 50% of indigenous Australians. 11% of indigenous people speak an indigenous language as their main language.
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How much of Australia's population are smoker's?
23 percent of adults in Australia smoke.
How many Buddhists are there in Australia?
How many Buddhists are there in australia?
WHAT percent is Australia's population in the world?
Australia's 22,417,867 people make up only 0.33% of the world population
What percent of people in Australia speak English?
Approximately 97.5 % of people in Australia speak English. English is not the official language of Australia, as the country has no declared official language, but it is the default language throughout the country.
What does 50 percent of the worlds population speak?
English
Which ethnic group contributed most to the culture of Australia?
English is the largest group in Australia, followed by Australian, Irish, Scottish, Italian, German, Chinese, Indian, Greek, and Dutch. Over 80 percent of Australia's population comes from a European background.
What percentage speaks English in the world?
English is the third most popular language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish. English is spoken by 5.43 percent of the worlds population, so therefore 94.57 percent of the worlds population speak no English.
How much is the population of Australia growing per year?
Australia is growing at a rate of 1.4 percent as at 2007 with a population of 20 743 300 at the 2006 census.
How many people in Australia use solar energy?
45 percent of the population
What percent of the world is aboriginal Australian?
The percentage of people who identify themselves as white or Caucasian in Australia is 92 percent. The Asian population in Australia is 7 percent.
What was the population in Australia in 1900?
The population of Australia in 1900 was 3.74 million people. As of 2013, the population of Australia is 23.2 million people.
What percent of world population is speaking correct English language?
Roughly 20-25% of the world's population speaks English proficiently as a first or second language. This percentage accounts for approximately 1.5 to 2 billion people worldwide.
