Statistics NZ said on Friday its first estimate of the net migrant inflow for the 12 months to June is 49,400.
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Migrant inflow count just over 50,000
Statistics NZ’s migration count for the year to May shows a marginal increase over the previous year, and the net inflow down by 9-13,000 compared to 2016-17.
Read more →Migration estimate looks upward again
Statistics NZ has provisionally estimated the net migrant inflow for the 12 months to April at 55,834 (± 1,600).
Read more →Immigration trends upward
Statistics NZ’s monthly migration figures, out today, show a rise in net immigration in March compared to March last year – 4468 (3396) – and an annual net inflow of 56,137 (50,628).
Read more →Migrant influx rising again, Auckland up where it was 2½ years ago
Destroying your knowledge base before replacing it fully with a new model has to be one of the sillier ventures our national statisticians have embarked upon, and the consequent guesswork can lead to all sorts of wrong conclusions…. Nevertheless, the new model is starting to become useful.
Read more →Latest count shows migrant inflow rising
Statistics NZ estimates the net inflow of migrants in the 12 months to February was 61,600 – a figure which will be changed every month for a few months as the Government agency adjusts its figures based on actual migrant movements.
Read more →Now the migrant inflow is rising again
Statistics NZ’s estimate of the net inflow of migrants has risen 35% – 15,000 more immigrants – from its first count for the 12 months to November through to its rolling 12-month count to January.
Read more →Migrant inflow up as exit count adjusted down
Statistics NZ has created a highly confusing, and moving, picture of migration with its new formula, which became the official formula last month. But the long & short of it is that emigration has risen sharply and immigration continues to decline.
Read more →Countdown to 5 million population is on
Statistics NZ expects New Zealand’s resident population to reach 5 million late this year or in 2020, based on recent trends, after hitting 4.9 million at the end of September.
Read more →November net migrant inflow down 40%, annual rate down 19% as new measure kicks in
If you mix 2 different methods of measuring migration – and even you use only the new measure – New Zealand suffered an extreme decline in its population gain in November. Statistics NZ’s calculations for that month, out today, are the first where it measures everything by the outcomes-based measure, which fully replaces the intentions-based method.
Read more →Migrant inflow continues to slide
New Zealand’s net migrant inflow continued to slide in October, by nearly 1000 for the month compared to the previous October.
Read more →Migrant inflow slide continues
New Zealand’s net migrant inflow continued to slide in September as more non-citizens left the country.
Read more →Immigrant decline continues – additional detail
New Zealand’s net inflow of migrants slipped by another 500 from July to August to 63,300/year, a decline of 9100/year since the peak in July 2017.
Read more →Migrant inflow slips again, but rate still high in international comparison
New Zealand’s migrant intake for the 12 months to July has slipped 8600 below the record net inflow the previous year, the result of a 3000 decline in arrivals and a 5600 increase in exits.
Read more →Migrant inflow slide continues
New Zealand’s – and Auckland’s – net migrant inflows continued to slide in June as more migrants left the country.
Read more →Migrants still coming, but more leaving
The big change in migration in the last month & the last 12 months is the rise in exits from New Zealand.
Read more →Updated: Migrant inflow slips again, transTasman outflow resumes
The inflow of long-term migrants to New Zealand dropped by just under 1000 in April compared to a year ago, and the total for the last 12 months is down 4900 to 67,038.
Read more →Net migrant inflow slips below 68,000
The net annual inflow of migrants is down by 4000 compared to a year ago, and 4400 below the peak last July. But, as Statistics NZ pointed out today, 67,984/year is still an historically high migration level.
Read more →Treasury paper questions Auckland’s actual population growth
An analytical paper published by the NZ Treasury last week raises questions about the accuracy of migration figures, largely because of the hard-to-analyse internal migration.
Read more →Migrant net inflow slips below 69,000
New Zealand’s net inflow of migrants slipped below 69,000/year in February, for the first time since May 2016.
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