Immigration in Australia PDF

IMMIGRATION IN AUSTRALIA POPULATION GROWTH, BOAT ARRIVALS & AUSTRALIA’S HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM TOTAL GROWTH 405,400 Australia’s annual growth rate is 1.8% 1.8%...

IMMIGRATION IN AUSTRALIA POPULATION GROWTH, BOAT ARRIVALS & AUSTRALIA’S HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM TOTAL GROWTH 405,400 Australia’s annual growth rate is 1.8% 1.8% POPULATION GROWTH RATE 405,400 which was an increase of 405,400 people over the last year. PEOPLE OVER THE LAST YEAR 41% Natural increase OVERSEAS MIGRATION 59% Overseas migration 241,000 OVERSEAS MIGRATION 59% 59% of Australia’s population increase is through migration which was 241,000 people last year. In 2008 net overseas migration was 315,700 which means that last year migration numbers were 74,700 OF POP. GROWTH fewer than 5 years ago. 41% of Australia’s H WT RO growth was through natural increase N G which was 164,400 people. 59% T I O OF TOTAL PO P U L A 41% Natural increase 59% Overseas migration PERMANENT VISAS 34% Temporary visas 101,230 PERMANENT VISAS 25% Permanent visas Of the net overseas migration, 58% are granted temporary visas (students, working holiday makers, visitors staying 12 months or more, 457 work visas), and 42% are granted permanent visas (skilled, 25% OF POP. GROWTH family and humanitarian). I O N 42% AT O F OV E R S E A S M I G R 41% Natural increase HUMANITARIAN VISAS 59% Overseas migration 19,930 34% Temporary visas HUMANITARIAN VISAS 25% Permanent visas 5.0% 20% of the permanent visas comprise Australia’s humanitarian program, a total 10.8% Skilled visas of 19,930 (the rest are skilled visas, 43% 9.2% Family visas and family visas, 37%), and so Australia’s 5.0% Humanitarian visas humanitarian program accounts for 5% of OF POP. GROWTH Australia’s population growth. S IS A T V E N R M AN 20 % OF ALL P E ASYLUM SEEKERS 41% Natural increase 4,949 59% Overseas migration Of the humanitarian visas, 63% are 34% Temporary visas granted offshore, 12% are granted to ASYLUM SEEKERS 25% Permanent visas 1.2% existing visa holders who are already in 10.8% Skilled visas Australia, and 25% (4,949) are granted to 9.2% Family visas people who have arrived into Australian 5.0% Humanitarian visas territorial waters by boat and are processed in detention centres. OF POP. GROWTH 3.2% Offshore visas 0.6% Existing visa holders Therefore asylum seekers 1.2% Asylum seekers by boat S granted visas account for 1.2% N V IS A 25% RIA of Australia’s population growth. OF ALL HUMANITA POPULATION GROWTH AND ASYLUM SEEKERS 2005 - 2014 Even if every asylum seeker who arrived TOTAL ARRIVALS BY BOAT by boat since 2005 (52,017) was granted 1.5% - 52,017 entry to Australia (and many have ASYLUM SEEKERS TOTAL POP. GROWTH 1.5% returned voluntarily, others have been deported, and still others are yet to have 98.5% - 3,514,300 their cases determined), the total number c b McCrindle 2014 when compared to Australia’s population OF POP. GROWTH researchvisualisation.com growth over this 9.5 year period Sources (3,514,300) would account for less than Department of Immigration (immi.gov.au) Australian Bureau of Statistics (abs.gov.au) 1.5% of Australia’s population growth. Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 52,017 arrivals by boat between 2005 and mid 2014 So total arrivals by boat over almost 10 years is the 9 weeks equivalent of less than 9 weeks of Australian births. 308,100 births for 2013 of births