Statistics New Zealand has released its permanent & long-term migration figures for September 2016, which revealed that net permanent and long-term migration into New Zealand continues to boom, hitting a record high annual net gain of 70,000 migrants:
Migrant arrivals numbered 125,600 in the September 2016 year, setting a new annual record. The distribution of migrant arrivals by most common visa type was:
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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.
