This statistic shows the number of recorded Jews across Australia in 2016, by age group. In 2016, there were approximately seven thousand people of age group 30 to 34 years were of Judaism faith.

The two countries with the greatest shares of the world's Jewish population are the United States and Israel. The United States had been a hub of Jewish immigration since the nineteenth century, as Jewish people sought to escape persecution in Europe by emigrating across the Atlantic. The Jewish population in the U.S. is largely congregated in major urban areas, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with the New York metropolitan area being the city with the second largest Jewish population worldwide, after Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel is the world's only officially Jewish state, having been founded in 1948 following the first Arab-Israeli War. While Jews had been emigrating to the holy lands since the nineteenth century, when they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, immigration increased rapidly following the establishment of the state of Israel. Jewish communities in Eastern Europe who had survived the Holocaust saw Israel as a haven from persecution, while the state encouraged immigration from Jewish communities in other regions, notably the Middle East & North Africa. Smaller Jewish communities remain in Europe in countries such as France, the UK, and Germany, and in other countries which were hotspots for Jewish migration in the twentieth century, such as Canada and Argentina.

In 2018, marriages performed by civil celebrants accounted for 79.7 percent of marriages in Australia. Civil celebrants are performing an increasing share of marriages in Australia as opposed to marriages performed by a minister of religion.

 Marriage and religion

Marriages in Australia and most English-speaking countries have traditionally been performed in a church by a Christian minister or priest. However, preferences are changing to suit Australia’s diverse population. Islamic, Jewish, and Hindu weddings ceremonies are becoming more common but the biggest change is in the number of people having secular weddings. This separation from traditional church weddings may have something to do with the increasing numbers of Australians who do not identify with a religion.

 Same-sex marriage

At the end of 2017, the Marriage Act 1961 was amended to allow same-sex couples to legally marry in Australia. This came after a nation-wide postal survey asking Australians to give their opinion on whether the law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry. Australians voted in favor of the legislation change and in the following year, over 2,000 same-sex marriages were officiated by civil celebrants in the state of New South Wales alone.