Venezuelan Australians

Venezuelan Australians (Spanish: venezolanos australiano) refers to Australian citizens of Venezuelan descent or birth. According to the 2011 Census there were 3,404 Venezuelan-born citizens who were residing in Australia at the moment of the census. There are an estimated 10,000 Australians of Venezuelan ancestry according to a study of Ivan De La Vega from Simón Bolívar University.[3]

Venezuelan Australians
Venezolano-Australiano
Venezuela Australia
Total population
2,206 (by ancestry, 2011)[1]
Regions with significant populations
 New South Wales1,191[2]
 Victoria727[2]
 Queensland577[2]
 Western Australia450[2]
Languages
Australian English · Venezuelan Spanish · Arabic · Italian · Portuguese
Religion
Predominately Roman Catholic · Protestant
Related ethnic groups
Italians · Spaniards · Portuguese · South Americans  • Colombian Australians  • Brazilian Australians

Almost 76% of Venezuelan Australians are concentrated in Eastern Australia.

History and cultural background

Small numbers of Venezuela-born have migrated to Australia since the 1960s, but the majority, about 72.9% of the population, arrived in Australia after 2001 as a part of the brain drain of the Venezuelan diaspora. Most came as skilled migrants, because of uncertainty of economic conditions in Venezuela.[2]

Ancestry

According to the 2011 census, 42.1% of Venezuelans reported to have Venezuelan ancestry, 13.9% Venezuelans reported to have Spanish Venezuelan ancestry, 8.1% of Venezuelans reported to have Italo-Venezuelan ancestry, 3.4% of Venezuelans reported to have English Venezuelan ancestry and 32.4% of Venezuelans reported to have other ancestries, including Portuguese Venezuelan.

Education and professions

83.7% of Venezuelan Australians over 15 years of age had a form of higher non-school qualifications. 57.6% had an occupation that was either being a skilled managerl, professional or in trade.[2]

Language

The main language spoken at home by Venezuela-born people is Spanish in a 77.7% followed by English with 13.8%. With a difference to others Hispanic Australian diasporas that speaks mainly Romance languages and English languages, an important percent of Venezuelan-born people main language spoken at home is Arabic in 2.6%. The remaining 6% speak others language at home (2% of them speak Italian, and at least 1% of them speak(s) Portuguese).[2]

See also

References
  1. "The People of Australia – Statistics from the 2011 Census". Australian Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Venezolanos en el exterior - Infografías | Últimas Noticias". Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

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