The proportion of Australians born overseas has hit a 120-year high, including a near-tripling over the past decade of the number of Australian residents born in India, new figures show. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released on Wednesday also reveals that in the past financial year, Victoria again gained the most new residents from interstate, with a net gain of 10,200 people. The percentage of Australian residents born overseas has increased every year for the past 15 years and, in   June last year, reached 28.2 per cent, or 6.7 million people. This is the highest percentage since the late 1800s. People from Britain remained the largest group of overseas-born residents, forming 5.1 per cent of the Australian population, or 1.2 million people. New Zealand-born residents make up the next largest group (2.6 per cent), followed by China (2 per cent), India (1.8 per cent) and the Philippines and Vietnam (both 1 per cent). The number of residents born in India has almost tripled over the past 10 years to about 433,000. 
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