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- Almost 1 in 3 NSW residents was born overseas and around 1 in 5 speaks a language other than English at home. Resident populations born in India, China, Iraq, Thailand and Korea all grew by about 20% or more between 2001 and 2006. Populations speaking Mandarin, Persian, Hindi, Thai and Tamil languages at home increased by 30% or more.
- In the financial year 2006-07, 54,900 new settlers arrived in NSW. China (13.0%) was the largest contributor of settlers, followed by the United Kingdom (12.8%), New Zealand (12.1%) and India (9.8%).
- Skill Stream migrants accounted for 43% of all settler arrivals to Australia in 2006-07. In comparison, Family Stream migrants accounted for 26% and Humanitarian Program migrants accounted for 9%, while Non-program migration (consisting mostly of New Zealand citizens) comprised 21% of all settler arrivals.
- Overseas-born people generally have good health, but patterns of some health conditions and health risk factors vary with country of birth.
- Compared with the Australian-born, people born in some overseas countries:
- - are more likely to have premature babies (mothers born in Greece, Italy, Fiji, USA and Philippines);
- - are less likely to have their first antenatal vist before 20 weeks gestation (mothers born in Lebanon, Fiji, Pakistan, Iraq, New Zealand, Korea and Indonesia);
- - have high rates of self-reported risk alcohol drinking (females born in New Zealand);
- - have high rates of self-reported current smoking (males born in Lebanon);
- - have high rates of self-reported overweight and obesity (males and females born in Italy; females born in Greece);
- - have high rates of self-reported diabetes (people born in Greece, Lebanon and Italy) and of hospitalisation for diabetes or its complications (people born in Lebanon, the Philippines and India);
- - have high rates of hospitalisation for coronary heart disease (Lebanon, Fiji and Iraq) and cardiac revascularisation procedures (Fiji, Lebanon, and Iraq);
- - have high rates of liver cancer (Vietnam, Korea, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Egypt and the Philippines);
- - have high rates of cervical cancer (females born in Fiji, the Philippines, Vietnam, New Zealand and China);
- - have high rates of tuberculosis (India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia,China, Korea, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka);
- - have high rates of self-reported psychological distress (males and females born in Lebanon and Greece; females born in Italy);
- Compared with people born in many overseas countries, people born in Australia:
- - are more likely to have premature babies;
- - have high rates of self-reported risk alcohol drinking;
- - have high rates of self-reported overweight and obesity;
- - have high age-adjusted death rates from all causes combined.
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