According to some observers, notwithstanding the US’s well-known reputation as an overseas country, par excellence, for aliens, Australia may still maintain that it’s a true nation of migrants with the reason being its immigrant proportion–as a component of its total populace–is reportedly much better.

The US–caught-up presently in an apparently never-ending discussion over its widely reported and much publicized efforts to improve its immigration laws—houses nearly 12% overseas-born aliens, as compared to Australia’s 26%. Before long Down Under will become the most diverse country across the globe, despite the truth that the US has an impressive edge, numerically speaking.

The US houses a staggering 46 million aliens, while Australia houses just 6.5 million even as over half of them follow English as their local language. Further, not more than 5% of the migrants in the US land from nations wherein English is either of the two–the national language or the 2nd language–with the US immigration laws stressing on families instead of language & capability to integrate.

The said observers add that, even minus taking into consideration the high proportion of the local and second-language English speakers in the migrant populace of the Kangaroo Land, the country is already a highly multi-ethnic & diverse nation with the augmentation in post-war immigration being the primary factor. Remarkably, as per a well-known Australian organization, the numbers based on the rate of birth and the existing immigration figures hint that, by 2050, the nation’s population figures will shatter the 35 million mark.