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India - the main source of migrants to Australia in the last program year
Low birth rates and the falling trend in migration from New Zealand and the United Kingdom which have been the traditional source countries of migrants, have resulted in Australia’s population growth rate falling to its lowest level in a decade.
Despite having the third highest rate of population growth among advanced economies last year, Australia’s population grew more slowly than it has for nearly a decade according to data from the Australian Bureau of statistics.
Australia’s population grew by just 1.35%. The last time it was that slow was in 2006, and it sees the end of a nine-year period of very strong population growth.
A key reason for this fall, has been the significant drop in the natural increase – i.e. births minus deaths. Natural increase was just 142,900, compared with a level of 162,700 observed a couple years ago.
Overseas migration has also slowed reflecting the slowing of Australia’s economy. This has largely been due to a fall in migrant flows from New Zealand and the United Kingdom which have historically been Australia’s main source countries for migrants.
India has emerged as the dominant source of immigrants with 34,874 people moving here in 2014-2015 program year. China followed with 27,872 people and the United Kingdom provided 21,078 migrants. Overall, the number of people immigrating in Australia's migration program has remained steady since 2012-13, when the planned immigration level was set at 190,000. That level has not changed since then.
Where are migrants settling? Since the start of 2014, Victoria has been the place to be. It has the highest population growth of any state – something that has not occurred in the past 35 years.
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Wednesday, 13 January 2016The demographic analysis of the sources of Australia's migrants was very enlightening indeed!
This is specially relevant, in view of the fact that: every seventh person in the world is an Indian and every sixth is Chinese. -
Friday, 04 November 2016
the infographics helps us to understand every single details of data. It was accurate
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Where can you obtains statistical information and cane we get statistics on the number of various applications by Country and the refusal rate of each country per visa type?
It would be interesting to determine if there is a statistical difference in each state or region for Tourist visas for example. There is growing concern that some states are more over zealous and apply a policy of refusal than other states even though the statistics and basis of refusal is not supported by the evidence. This is more likely to occur when Visa processing is offshore and allocated to a particular office.
Publication of statistical information by state/office would be of interest in helping to identify if there is an inbuilt political or cultural bias in the system of allocation and assessment.