Net permanent arrivals hit 39-year low

Friday 6 May 2016

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released visitor arrivals and departures data for the month of March, which registered a resumption of falls in annual immigration.

In the year to March 2016, there were 681,840 permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia – down 4,390 from February 2016 and well down from the record 792,500 arrivals set in the year to January 2013 – partly offset by 407,460 permanent and long-term departures from Australia (see next chart).

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.