Year Ending In October 2019 Records High Amount Of Immigrants With Work Visas And Long-Term Visitor Visas In New Zealand

The growth of the population in New Zealand is going up and that is thanks in part to immigrants. That is according to the latest numbers and analysis given by Statistics NZ, the official agency of the country that works with data, numbers, and such. The agency has also shown that as per their records, there was an increase in population that came from immigration totaling to 55,613 individuals for the year that ended in October 2019. This number is up by 10.8% as compared to the year before that. This increase is the highest one recorded for a period of 12 months. The last time that it peaked was in 2016.

The experts from Statistics NZ have also shared that the gain in the population would have even become higher if the country did not experience a significant amount of people leaving the country for a variety of reasons. There are citizens leaving the country to work in other countries. And there are also immigrants in the country who have left New Zealand since their visas have already expired.

The movement in and out of New Zealand

For the year that ended in October 2019, there was a total of 45,513 citizens of New Zealand who have left the country for the long term. However, despite this, there were 33,842 citizens of the country who have gone back to the country after staying in other countries for a long time.

As per the individuals who have come to the country as immigrants, the country with the most number of people arriving in New Zealand was South Africa, with a total of 10,235 for the given period. China and Hong Kong came next with a total of 8860. India followed suit with 7941 immigrants in total. The Philippines had 7034 and Australia came contributing 5140 immigrants. This is just for the year that ended in October. The number of immigrants coming to New Zealand is still high and they contribute a lot to the population and to the workforce of the country.

Looking at the numbers

For the year that ended in October, the total was 148,420 of immigrants who arrived in New Zealand. They would be staying in the country for the long term. As per Statistics NZ, this is the biggest number that the country has been able to record since the agency was started in 2002 to collect and analyze data in the present format that they are using. The agency has also disclosed that the arrivals of individuals in the country holding visitor visas and work visas have been a record high for this period. There were 33,301 individuals who had work visas and 31,475 individuals who came with visitor visas that were for the long term.

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