page_title: Immigration by country
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Immigration by country / By country / Oceania / Australia
caption_attribution_description: Countries of Birth of Australian estimated resident population in 2006
context_section_description: The overall level of immigration to Australia has grown substantially during the last decade. Net overseas migration increased from 30,000 in 1993 to 118,000 in 2003-04. The largest components of immigration are the skilled migration and family re-union programs. The mandatory detention of unauthorised arrivals by boat has generated great levels of controversy. During the 2004–05, total 123,424 people immigrated to Australia. Of them, 17,736 were from Africa, 54,804 from Asia, 21,131 from Oceania, 18,220 from United Kingdom, 1,506 from South America, and 2,369 from the rest of Europe. 131,000 people migrated to Australia in 2005-06 and migration target for 2012–13 is 190,000.
  Australia and Switzerland, with about a quarter of their population born outside the country, are the two countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the world.
caption: Countries of birth of Australian estimated resident population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006[113]).
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