New Zealand’s annual net migration was provisionally estimated at 50,900 in the year ending January 2019 compared with 52,700 in the previous year, the statistics department Stats NZ said on Friday.
Despite the fall in net migration, provisional estimates of migrant arrivals increased in the year ending January 2019, up 4,000 to 144,200. The top source countries for arrivals were Australia, China, India and Britain, Stats NZ said.
Provisional estimates of migrant departures were also up 5,800 to 93,300. The larger increase for departures meant net migration for the year ending January 2019 was down 1,800 when compared with the year ending January 2018, it said.
“Net migration continues to remain at historically high levels,” population indicators manager Tehseen Islam said in a statement. “This has been the case since 2014, with a peak in 2016,” Islam said.
In the year ending January 2019 there were 109,800 migrant arrivals for non-New Zealand citizens and 47,800 migrant departures for a net gain of 62,000 non-New Zealand citizens, statistics showed.
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