It’s official. The Sikh population in Australia has doubled in five years, according to the census 2016 data released by the Australian government over this week.
With 1.26 lakh followers – up from 72,000 five years ago – Sikhism is now the fifth largest religion of the country, after Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism.
In the 2006 census, Sikhism was not even among 20 religions recorded in Australia.
As compared to the 2006 census that had recorded just about 26,000 Sikhs, there has been a five-fold rise in the community’s numbers Down Under in a decade.
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