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People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic, government statistics show.

Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Tuesday showed that 131,200 people departed New Zealand in the year ended June 2024, provisionally the highest on record for an annual period. Around a third of these were headed to Australia.

While net migration, the number of those arriving minus those leaving, remains at high levels, economists also expect this to wane as the number of foreign nationals wanting to move to New Zealand falls due to the softer economy.

The data showed of those departing 80,174 were citizens, which was almost double the numbers seen leaving prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    I’m not trying to accomplish anything. You’re the one making demands and getting angry at me about things only you are responsible for.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            17·
            3 months ago

            I don’t even understand the question. Because… I’m not? It’s like asking why I’m not hopping on one leg. It’s just not something I’m doing.

                • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  6·
                  3 months ago

                  What changed between now, when it seems courteous to answer questions, and upthread, when you evaded answering my initial one?

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                    17·
                    3 months ago

                    I answered your question to begin with too. I told you to read the definition because it already told you the answer. And then you, for some reason, decided I was saying the definition meant the opposite of what it said. Much like I can’t control you, I can’t help it if you don’t accept my answers.