Note: Terms used in the following population tables reflect the original historical sources and are considered offensive today.

Chinese population of Tasmania, 1881–1947

		1881	1891	1901	1911	1921	1933	1947
Chinese	Persons	844	1056	609	529	321	197	111
	Male	842	993	536	450	283	160	81
	Female	2	63	73	79	38	37	30
‘Full’ Chinese	Persons	844	939	506	427	262	132	68
	Male	842	931	482	400	247	117	51
	Female	2	8	24	27	15	15	17
‘Half-caste’ Chinese	Persons	_	117	103	102	59	65	43
	Male	–	62	54	50	36	43	30
	Female	–	55	49	52	23	22	13

Source: Compiled from the Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No. 18, 1925, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Melbourne, 1925, p. 955; Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1933 and 1947.

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Chinese in Tasmania, 1901

An Appendix in the 1901 Census of Tasmania contained specific tables enumerating Chinese and ‘half-caste’ Chinese, as well as ‘other alien races’ and Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

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Find the complete Tasmanian Census 1901 (look for TAS-1901-census.pdf) in the Historical and Colonial Census Data Archive (HCCDA) Dataverse.

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Chinese British subjects in Tasmania and Australia, 1911

In this table, ‘Chinese’ indicates ‘race’ not birthplace. It is taken from a section of the 1911 Commonwealth Census on ‘Non-European Races’.

		British subject by			Total Chinese British subjects	Total Chinese
		Birthplace	Parentage	Naturalization
Male Chinese	Australia	2 679	67	3 261	6 007	23 374
	Tasmania	84	1	116	201	450
Female Chinese	Australia	2 137	3	49	2 189	2 398
	Tasmania	72	0	6	78	79
Total Chinese	Australia	4 816	70	3 310	8 196	25 772
	Tasmania	156	1	122	279	529
Male ‘full Chinese’	Australia	1 168	65	3 259	4 492	21 856
	Tasmania	34	1	116	151	400
Female ‘full Chinese’	Australia	643	3	49	695	897
	Tasmania	20	0	6	26	27
Total ‘full Chinese’	Australia	1 811	68	3 308	5 187	22 753
	Tasmania	54	1	122	177	427
Male ‘half-caste Chinese’	Australia	1 511	2	2	1 515	1 518
	Tasmania	50	0	0	50	50
Female ‘half-caste Chinese’	Australia	1 494	0	0	1 494	1 501
	Tasmania	52	0	0	52	52
Total ‘half-caste Chinese’	Australia	3 005	2	2	3 009	3 019
	Tasmania	102	0	0	102	102

Source: Compiled from the Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1911, Part VII: Non-European Races

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