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Long-term international net migration

immigration

Long-term immigration minus long-term emigration for overlapping year-ending periods. Latest estimates are provisional official statistics in development.

Latest

171,000 people
YE Dec 25

Previous-period movement

-31,000
This describes movement, not whether the outcome is good or bad.

Source

Long-term international migration

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Historical trendUp to 120 most recent observations. Latest value 171,000.00 people.944,000.00 peopleYE Jun 12YE Dec 25

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Recent observations

PeriodValueRevision
YE Dec 25171,000 people1
YE Sep 25202,000 people1
YE Jun 25219,000 people1
YE Mar 25260,000 people1
YE Dec 24331,000 people1
YE Sep 24497,000 people1
YE Jun 24649,000 people1
YE Mar 24734,000 people1
YE Dec 23848,000 people1
YE Sep 23891,000 people1
YE Jun 23924,000 people1
YE Mar 23944,000 people1
YE Dec 22891,000 people1
YE Sep 22822,000 people1
YE Jun 22681,000 people1
YE Mar 22575,000 people1
YE Dec 21467,000 people1
YE Sep 21384,000 people1
YE Jun 21251,000 people1
YE Mar 21132,000 people1
YE Dec 2093,000 people1
YE Sep 2035,000 people1
YE Jun 20111,000 people1
YE Mar 20170,000 people1

One reading

Migration can expand the workforce, skills base, demand and tax base.

Another reading

Impacts depend on age, earnings, housing supply and local service capacity; a net total alone cannot settle those questions.

What the data cannot prove: a movement does not by itself identify its cause or show that every person experienced the same outcome.