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Migration drops more than expected

Tuesday 21st of August 2018

Stats NZ released its latest migration data today and it shows that annual net migration was 63,800 in the year ending July 2018.

That’s down from 65,000 in the ending June 2018 and a decrease of 8,600 from the record high of 72,400 recorded in the year ending June 2017.

The decrease was mainly driven by more non-New Zealand citizen migrants leaving the country. They were...

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