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What is my ethnicity if I am white Australian? ›

White Australian may refer to: European Australians, Australians with European ancestry. Anglo-Celtic Australians, an Australian with ancestry from the British Isles.

We ask a question about a person's ancestry or ethnic origin to create statistics about ancestry groups in America. Local, state, tribal, and federal agencies use data about ancestry to plan and evaluate government programs and policies to ensure that they fairly and equitably serve the needs of all groups.

About 85–90% of the population identifies as ethnically white (meaning of European ancestry), but this is actually a compilation of several ethnic categories. Around 25% identify as white Australian, while 26% identify as English, and the rest are a mixture of various European ethnicities ranging from Dutch to Greek.

Definition. Ethnic or cultural origin refers to the ethnic or cultural origins of the person's ancestors. Ancestors may have Indigenous origins, or origins that refer to different countries, or other origins that may not refer to different countries.

White/Caucasian is a term used to describe "a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa" (NCBI, 2022).

They may not be actively using AncestryDNA: Some people may have taken the AncestryDNA test out of curiosity or interest but may not be actively using the platform. They may have forgotten their login information, lost interest in genealogy, or moved on to other hobbies or interests.

We want you to feel comfortable creating and sharing your online family tree so we allow you to choose between three levels of privacy: public, private, or unindexed (hidden).

the U.S. the U.S. Source: United States census bureau. White Americans constitute the majority of the 332 million people living in the United States, with 71% of the population in the 2020 United States Census, including 61.6% who identified as 'white alone.'

Are Australians considered Europeans? ›

While officially part of the North-West European classification, Australians of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh or Cornish ancestral origins are often informally referred to as Anglo-Celtic Australians.

Australia's major religion is Christianity with the major denominations, in order of size, being Catholic, Anglican, Uniting Church, Eastern Orthodox, Presbyterian and Reformed, Baptist and Pentecostal. 30% of the Australian population reported that they were either Anglican or Catholic in the 2021 Census.

Related Statistics. The 2022 American Community Survey found these top reported ancestries in the U.S.: German 41.1M, English 31.4M, Irish 30.7M, American 17.8M, and Italian 16.0M. The American Community Survey estimates about 41.1M (roughly 12.3%) of the nation's 333.3M people in 2022 reported German ancestry.

Europe is the largest continent that Americans trace their ancestry to, and many claim descent from various European ethnic groups. The Spaniards were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the continental United States in 1565.

Black British is one of various self-designation entries used in official UK ethnicity classifications.

Australia is a nation, so Australian is a nationality. It is not a race or an ethnic group as such. Prior to white settlement in the late 1700s, Australia was inhabited solely by Australian Aboriginal people.

If you are unsure, autosomal DNA testing is available that can help you to learn more about your ethnic background.9 Autosomal DNA testing looks at combined ancestry from both parents that can identify population groups with which you share portions of your autosomal DNA.

White British is an ethnicity classification used for the white population identifying as English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, or British in the United Kingdom Census. In the 2011 census, the White British population was 49,997,686, 81.5% of Great Britain's total population.

Today the population of Australia consists of more than 270 ethnic groups. Until the mid-20th century, however, Australian society was, with some accuracy, regarded in the wider world as essentially British—or at any rate Anglo-Celtic.