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Aboriginal Heritage means people identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin amongst Australia's Original Inhabitants.

There were 798,400 circa indigenous Australians at the 2016 census which represented 3.41% of the Australian population of 23.401 million people at the 2016 census

ABS reports that in 2011, there were 548,370 people identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin and counted in the 2011 Census. This represented 2.5% of the Australian population as recorded in the 2011 Census.

Summary of Australian Indigenous health notes 'inter alia' that "......669,736 Indigenous people (were) living in Australia in 2011..." which represents 3% of the Australian population.

Click on: ABS  Topics @ a Glance - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

See also:  Indigenous Australians