According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as of 2021, the Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory was estimated to be 76,736, which represents about 30% of the Territory’s population. In 2016, 25.5% of the Northern Territory population, or 58,248 people, identified as Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) . Therefore, the percentage of the Northern Territory population that is Aboriginal is approximately 30%.