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Australia's net migration was 306k persons per year as of June 2025. The difference between the number of people arriving in Australia to live and the number leaving, including both temporary and permanent migrants. Migration influences economic growth, workforce supply, housing demand, and cultural diversity. Its impact is multi-dimensional and context-dependent. Data is sourced from ABS net overseas migration by financial year (NOM_FY; the year to 30 June). FY2000-04 are sums of ABS quarterly estimates on the earlier method; ABS has a series break at 2006. and updated annually.
The difference between the number of people arriving in Australia to live and the number leaving, including both temporary and permanent migrants.
Migration influences economic growth, workforce supply, housing demand, and cultural diversity. Its impact is multi-dimensional and context-dependent.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS net overseas migration by financial year (NOM_FY; the year to 30 June). FY2000-04 are sums of ABS quarterly estimates on the earlier method; ABS has a series break at 2006.), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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