Lebanese Australians
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 87,343 (by birth, 2021) 248,430 (by ancestry, 2021) (0.9% of the Australian population) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Greater Sydney (55,979 L-born 2016), Melbourne (16,394 L-born, 2016) and other urban areas | |
| Languages | |
| Australian English, Lebanese Arabic, Standard Arabic, French, Armenian | |
| Religion | |
| Catholicism (48.2%), Islam (35.1%), Eastern Orthodox (9.9%), No religion (3.4%) and Protestant/Evangelical (3.4%) | |
| 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.