248,430 (by ancestry, 2021)[1] (0.9% of the Australian population)[1] 87,343 (by birth, 2021)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Greater Sydney (55,979 L-born 2016),[2] Melbourne (16,394 L-born, 2016)[3] and other urban areas
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Australian English, Lebanese Arabic, Standard Arabic, French, Armenian
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Catholicism (48.2%), Islam (35.1%), Eastern Orthodox (9.9%), No religion (3.4%) and Protestant/Evangelical (3.4%)[4]
Related ethnic groups
Lebanese British, Lebanese Americans, Lebanese Canadians, Lebanese New Zealanders
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Lebanese Australians (Arabic: اللبنانيون الأستراليون) refers to citizens or permanent residents of Australia of Lebanese ancestry. The population is diverse, having a large Christian religious base, being mostly Maronite Catholics, while also having a large Muslim group of Sunni and Shia branches.
Lebanon, in both its modern-day form as the Lebanese state (declared 1920; independent 1943), and its historical form as the region of the Lebanon, has been a source of migrants to Australia since the 1870s. 248,430 Australians (about 1% of the total population) claimed some Lebanese ancestry in 2021. The 2021 census reported 87,343 Lebanese-born people in Australia, with nearly 66,000 of those resident in Greater Sydney.
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^"2021 People in Australia who were born in Lebanon, Census Country of birth QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics".
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