Chinese Australians
As a whole, Australian residents identifying themselves as having Chinese ancestry made up 5.6% of those nominating their ancestry at the 2016 census and numbered 1,213,903. At the 2016 census, 509,555 people declared that they were born in Mainland China, 86,886 declared that they were born in Hong Kong, while 46,882 declared that they were born in Taiwan. There are also a large number of persons of Chinese ancestry among those born in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Taiwanese Australians
Still, Mainlander Chinese Australians outnumber the Taiwanese Australians at least 20 to 1. Therefore, the Taiwanese are always in the shadow of the Mainlander Chinese even in Australia, and young Taiwanese Australians are greatly influenced by young Mainlander Chinese. These two groups of people generally live in the same suburbs in the major cities, hang out in similar areas around the city (such as specific shopping malls), and also tend to attend the same high schools. Therefore, young Taiwanese Australians are always surrounded by young Mainlander Chinese Australians.