Australia is expected to see a population boom as an extra 650,000 migrants enter the country this financial year and the next. The number of people set to call Australia home is about to soar, with new government forecasts predicting the nation's population will jump by 900,000 people by the end of June, 2025.
The expectation is population growth to reach over 2%/yr. Net overseas migration is expected to reach 400,000 in 2022/23, well up on the 235,000 forecast in the October budget. 2023/24 should also be updated to around 315,000.
1)Job opportunities. Few nations can really match Australia's impressive appeal to qualified overseas workers, which has a dramatically low unemployment rate. The country is aggressively accepting migrants with job skills to fill their many job vacancies and contribute to the nation's economic prosperity.
Australia's migrant population is expected to have grown by more than 700,000 between the 2022 and 2024 financial years.
Australia's leading economists have overwhelmingly endorsed a return to the highest immigration intake on record, saying Australia should aim for at least 190,000 migrants per year as it opens its borders, up from the target of 160,000 per year set ahead of COVID.
Australia Would Struggle without Immigration
It also influences education, tourism, and many other industries. As attitudes about immigration change throughout the world, it's important to remember the positive effect immigration has on Australia.
Eighty percent of migrants said they feel welcome in Australia.
Over the past five years, the number of Australian-born people leaving Australia permanently has doubled.
Australian citizens
The number of citizens leaving annually has ranged from 80,000 to 100,000 over the last 10 years. The number of Australian citizens returning home over that same period has ranged between 72,000 to 81,000 each year.
The main recipients of the pandemic-era migration were south-east Queensland and small coastal communities with more spacious homes, according to analysis by The Australian Financial Review of newly released regional population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Australians are very friendly and approachable people and will be happy to answer any questions you have.
Absolutely. Australia is a fantastic place to live, even for foreigners. There aren't only advantages to living in Australia, but they outweigh the disadvantages. I love the climate, work-life balance, safety and the wide range of outdoor activities that I can enjoy every weekend.
A third of Australians (33%) say immigration should be 'lower than pre-Covid levels', and 21% say 'higher than pre-Covid levels'. In 2019, prior to the pandemic, in response to a different question, 47% of Australians said immigration levels were 'too high', while 40% said the rate of immigration was about right.
A recent report by ABC Life revealed that some 40 percent of AUSTRALIANS have NEVER been abroad. Nearly half of the country has never travelled overseas. Not even, New Zealand!
Did you know that 95% of Australia is uninhabited by humans? Check out the awesome video below from Real Life Lore explaining why the human population of Australia is concentrated to such a small portion of the country/continent.
This isolation also reduced deaths from influenza and other viruses that travellers normally bring in from overseas, he says. Another reason for Australia's high life expectancy is that its health system “ranks quite highly across a number of areas compared with many other countries”, says Adair.
The critically acclaimed Mercer Quality of Life Survey placed Melbourne and Sydney in the top 17 cities based on quality of life in 2022. One thing is clear, Australia excels when it comes to a high quality of life, looking at aspects such as life expectancy, health, standard of living and educational standard.
Plan your return journey to Australia
While all fully vaccinated Australians will be able to leave Australia without an exemption, arrangements for returning to Australia will depend on the state or territory to which you are travelling.
Here's a stat that might surprise you: only 57 per cent of Australian citizens own a passport. That means almost half of all Australians have absolutely no intention of going overseas any time soon (even if they could). None whatsoever. One in two people here just doesn't travel overseas.
Canadians are among the happiest people in the world, with Australians close behind, according to a new poll that surveyed people in 28 countries.
In mid-2022, Turkey was the largest refugee-hosting country in the world. According to data available by the The UN Refugee Agency there were around 3.7 million refugees in Turkey. Germany was second with around 2.2 million.
At 10 years old, Najeeba Wazefadost fled Afghanistan with her parents. She sought asylum from Australia by sea in September 2000. She spent several months in mandatory immigration detention before being recognised as a refugee.
Roads would remain crowded, housing expensive
At the margins, traffic congestion might not continue to deteriorate as quickly if immigration was halted. But there's no reason to believe it would get better. Similarly, there would be fewer potential buyers of property.
You must notify the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) if you plan to move overseas for six months (183 days) or more in a twelve-month period. You must do this within 7 days from the date of leaving Australia. Update your contact details via myGov. If you already live overseas, you must notify the ATO.
The answer to this question is yes, you can immigrate to Australia without a job in 2021. But moving to Australia with a job in hand gives you extra points and will help to give your profile a good score.