The number of settlers from China – 1991-2010
Here is another graph generated from Immigration data, showing the number of permanent settlers, who were born in China, by year of arrival.
…and here is that data in a table if you need the actual numbers.
| Year of arrival |
Settlers |
| 1991 | 10742 |
| 1992 | 8349 |
| 1993 | 6079 |
| 1994 | 5242 |
| 1995 | 9006 |
| 1996 | 12363 |
| 1997 | 6822 |
| 1998 | 6647 |
| 1999 | 7786 |
| 2000 | 7189 |
| 2001 | 8156 |
| 2002 | 10300 |
| 2003 | 11473 |
| 2004 | 17317 |
| 2005 | 18960 |
| 2006 | 21978 |
| 2007 | 23235 |
| 2008 | 24253 |
| 2009 | 25591 |
| 2010 | 18907 |
It’s interesting that there was actually a dip in 2010… That’s only about three quarters what was in 2009. Is this a blip? or does that mean that migration from China is tailing off…?
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What is interesting is that this is the lowest since 2004. If you look back to the early 90′s immigration to Australia was dropping off until a surge in 1996, followed by a drop, then an increasing rate of immigration from China. It will be several years until you can see the pattern for 2010 if there is one……
Yes – that’s because of Tiananmen Square (1989), and the British Handover of Hong Kong to China (1997)…
how does HK handover affect migration from mainland china???
The graph is about people born in China. And so they may actually be living in Hong Kong (up until 1997) – but were born elsewhere in China. A lot of people are in that category…
Someone (I forget who) made the comment to me that this could possibly be due to the stronger Australian dollar (which reached parity with the USD in October 2010). This may have meant that people from China chose to migrate to countries such as the United States instead of Australia…
The drop in 2010 I think is due to the contraction in the number of skilled migrants sought and approved during and immediately after the GFC…