Near 3 quarter of Australians are living in the metropolitan cities and in coastal areas. Beach is and integral part of Australian identity, it is indigenous population at mainland and Torres Strait Islanders at 410,003 in 2001; it is a significant increase from 1976 census that showed the indigenous population of 11,953. Australians are suffer from the higher rates of imprisonment as well unemployment while lower education levels in expectancies of life for females and males are about 17 years and lower than non-indigenous Australian. These indigenous communities have been described having failed state in many conditions.
It is common with other developed countries as well; Australia is experiencing demographics that are shifted towards the older population having retirees of working age. In year 2004, average of civilian was 38.8 years, large number of Australians live outside home country. National language of Australia is English.
School attendance is compulsory in country. Second largest fastest growing religion in Buddhism in Australia , less than 6 percent of Australians identify overall with the non-Christian religions. Grants from government have supported an establishment of 38 universities of Australia . Ration of international students in Australia is highest in OECD countries. There is large number of collages and universities in Australia are famous all over the world.
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