Australia is called one of many world’s main “immigration nations” alongside New Zealand, Canada, and the US. So it’s maybe not shocking that migration is a perennial political situation right here.
The Coalition desires to make the following federal election about migration — and to this point this yr, the problem has certainly helped it dominate the information agenda. That’s regardless of migration being projected to really lower within the coming yr.
Within the newest instalment of Crikey’s Paint by Numbers collection, we enable you make sense of the important thing figures in terms of migration.
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Internet migration consumption in 2022-23, in response to the most recent federal price range: 528,000
Projected web migration consumption in 2023-24: 395,000
Projected web migration consumption in 2024-25: 260,000
Projected web migration consumption in 2025-26: 255,000
Projected web migration consumption in 2026-27 and 2027-28: 235,000
Variety of folks forcibly displaced, globally: greater than 100 million
Variety of folks in pressing want of resettlement, globally: greater than 2 million
Variety of folks to be resettled in Australia’s humanitarian program per yr: 20,000
Variety of occasions Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has answered questions on migration in press conferences and interviews to this point in 2024: a minimum of 60
Variety of occasions Opposition Chief Peter Dutton has answered questions on migration in press conferences and interviews, to this point in 2024: a minimum of 47
Share of voters surveyed who fee immigration and border safety as one among their high 5 points, as of June: 24
Share of voters surveyed who rated immigration and border safety as one among their high 5 points, as of 1 yr earlier: 15
Years Indigenous folks have been dwelling in Australia: a minimum of 65,000
Variety of convicts that arrived in Australia between 1788 and 1868: 160,000
12 months first federal immigration portfolio created: 1945
Quantity of people that settled in Australia between 1945 and 2017: greater than 7.5 million
Complete variety of Australian residents in 2023: 26.6 million
Quantity of those that have been born abroad: 8.2 million
Share of Australian residents born overseas: 30.7
Monetary yr when China surpassed the UK as the first supply of immigrants to Australia: 2010-11
Variety of Australian residents born in England, as of 2023: 926,000
Variety of Australian residents born in India, as of 2023: 846,000
Variety of Australian residents born in China, as of 2023: 656,000
Variety of Australian residents born in New Zealand, as of 2023: 598,000
Share of individuals, globally, who stay outdoors their nation of start, as of 2020: 3.6
Australia’s place of the worldwide rating of nations with essentially the most foreign-born residents: 9
