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Judaism in Australia
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Judaism is a minority religion in Australia. 99,956 Australians identified as Jewish in the 2021 census, which accounts for about 0.4% of the population.[3] This is a 9.8% increase in numbers from the 2016 census.
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See also: Australian Jews
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99,956[1] 0.4% of Australia's population | |
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Australian English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, French, Persian, Arabic, Spanish, Afrikaans, Bukhori, Polish, German, Chinese. |
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There are many estimates of how many Jews are in Australia, with some estimates going as high as 250,000 [an estimate which, if based on the number of possibly Jewish family names in Australia, seems quite probable given the dilution of Jewish bloodlines after many generations of marrying out and other moves away from religious observance: unfortunately, the Bureau of Statistics reports only census enumerations of Jews by religion and not Jews by bloodline (ancestry)