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Melbourne is Australia's second largest city and has a diverse and multicultural population. Melbourne has dominated Australia's population growth; for the 11th year in a row as of 2013, adding 77,000 people between 2011-2012. It is expected to boom past 5 million people by 2025 and overtake Sydney's declined population growth before 2040. Melbourne currently has over 4.35 million people (peaking at over 4.35 million at the close of the financial year with an 88+ thousand growth). Almost a quarter of Victoria's population was born overseas, and the city is home to residents from 180 countries, who speak over 233 languages and dialects and follow 116 religious faiths. Melbourne has the second largest Asian population in Australia, which includes the largest Indian and Sri Lankan communities in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vicnet Directory Indian Community )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vicnet Directory Sri Lankan Community )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vietnamese Community Directory ) 〕 The earliest known inhabitants of the broad area that later became known as Melbourne were Indigenous Australians – specifically, at the time of European settlement, the Bunurong, Wurundjeri and Wathaurong tribal groups. Melbourne is still a centre of Aboriginal life — consisting of local groups and indigenous groups from other parts of Australia, as most indigenous Victorians were displaced from their traditional lands during colonization – with the Aboriginal community in the city numbering over 20,000 persons (0.6% of the population).〔(VicNet — Strategy for Aboriginal Managed Land in Victoria: Draft Report ) (1-Section 2 )〕 ==Demographic statistics== Although Victoria's net interstate migration has fluctuated, the Melbourne statistical division was growing by approximately 50,000 people a year in 2003. Melbourne has now attracted the largest proportion of international overseas immigrants (48,000) finding it outpacing Sydney's international migrant intake, along with having strong interstate migration from Sydney and other capitals due to more affordable housing and cost of living, which have been two recent key factors driving Melbourne's growth.〔(The Resurgence of Marvellous Melbourne Trends in Population Distribution in Victoria, 1991-1996 )〕〔Article by John O'Leary. Monash University Press〕 In recent years, Melton, Wyndham and Casey, part of the Melbourne statistical division, have recorded the highest growth rate of all local government areas in Australia. Despite a demographic study stating that Melbourne could overtake Sydney in population by 2028, the ABS has projected in two scenarios that Sydney will remain larger than Melbourne beyond 2056, albeit by a margin of less than 3% compared to a margin of 12% in 2011. However, the first scenario projects that Melbourne's population overtakes Sydney in 2039, primarily due to larger levels of internal migration losses assumed for Sydney. Melbourne's population density declined following the Second World War, with the private motor car and the lures of space and property ownership causing a suburban sprawl, mainly eastward. After much discussion both at general public and planning levels in the 1980s, the decline has reversed since the recession of the early 1990s. The city has seen increased density in the inner and western suburbs. Since the 1970s, Victorian Government planning blueprints, such as Postcode 3000 and Melbourne 2030, have aimed to curtail the urban sprawl.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Melbourne 2030 - in summary )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City of Melbourne — Strategic Planning — Postcode 3000 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Demographics of Melbourne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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