People who immigrate to Australia and New Zealand... where are most of them from?

Question

I always thought more Brits moved to those countries... then say... Americans... but one of my friends (from australia) said it's the other way around... that there are alot of americans going to live over there...

I was just wondering where most the immigrants come from?

When i was in the UK for example there were a fair number of Aussies + Kiwis, alot of places i worked at! mainly eastern europeans though....

I'm an american by the way.

Answer 1

Country of Birth Estimated Resident  Population

United Kingdom 1,153,264

New Zealand 476,719

China 279,447

Italy 220,469

Vietnam 180,352

India 153,579

Philippines 135,619

Greece 125,849

South Africa 118,816

Germany 114,921

Malaysia 103,947

Netherlands 86,950

Lebanon 86,599

Sri Lanka 70,908

Serbia and Montenegro 68,879

Indonesia 67,952

United States 64,832

Poland 59,221

Fiji 58,815

Ireland 57,338

Croatia 56,540

Answer 2

the rest of the world i should imagine

Answer 3

Prison I believe from the UK - they're all a bunch of crims ha ha ha

Answer 4

Someone who has answered gives the ancestry of the people living here in Australia now. While that's interesting, we get waves of migration, the same as anyone else. I work with a USA person and his wife is also from there, but it is hard to qualify unless you have professional qualifications,  or skills in demand, which might be a drawback from he point of view of many middle-class USA folks, and might rule out many who aren't that lucky. I would not say the proportion of them is very great in my experience ... but there are varying proportions depending on where in Australia you live.

"More than one-fifth of Australians were born overseas (23 percent), compared with 10 percent in the United States and 17 percent in Canada ... The post-World War II period stands out as an exceptional era in Australia's immigration history because of a major influx of immigrants from outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. For much of the post-World War II period, the UK and Ireland have been the major source of immigrants even while there was a series of successive waves of immigrants from various non-English speaking regions. The immediate post-war period saw the arrival of substantial numbers of displaced persons from Eastern Europe. This was followed by waves from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East. In the late 1970s, substantial flows from Asia commenced and still continue. Since the late 1980s, Asia has been a more important origin of migrants than Europe. In the 1990s, the United Kingdom lost its place as the largest single source of immigrants." Respected population issues lecturer, Graeme Hugo