The line graph demonstrates how many people in Australia use Chinese, Arabic, Italian and Greek as their mother tongue.
Overall, the number of Australians using Chinese and Arabic witnessed an upward trend, whereas the figure for people choosing Italian and Greek experienced the opposite trend. It could be seen that the most used language was Chinese in the given period.
According to the Chinese and Arabic, the number of residents in Australia using Chinese as a native language was nearly 110,000, while its of Australians choosing Arabic was 50,000 people, ranking the least used language in the first year. Moreover, there were constant and dramatic increases in the figures for individuals using Chinese and Arabic, which were 350,000 and 150,000 people, respectively, in the last year. Additionally, they peaked at these figures in 2011.
The figures for people choosing Greek as their native language were nearly 250,000, recording the highest figure among the four categories in 1986. In addition, the figure for individuals using Italian was 150,000. Both Greek and Italian experienced downward trends in the number of Australians selecting them as their mother tongue, which decreased to nearly 200,000 and just above 100,000 in 2011.
