Asian Migrants are Leaving NZ

27th January 2006 ( source www.emigratenz.org)

Inevitably some migrants discover New Zealand is not for them. New figures from the Department of Labour show one in five migrants leave New Zealand within 6 years of arriving. Or, if you prefer thinking bottles are half full, 80 percent of migrants are still in New Zealand 6 years after first arriving. The proportion of migrants leaving New Zealand depends on where they come from. Migrants from East Asian countries are most likely to leave New Zealand - leaving at about double the average rate. For migrants who arrived in 1999, 44 percent of Taiwanese had left. Figures for Singapore and Hong Kong were 41 and 31 percent respectively. For more recent migrants - arriving in 2002 - people from south East Asian countries were again more likely to leave than migrants from other countries. The top 10 countries for migrants leaving New Zealand in 2005 (who arrived in 2002) is as follows:
Top 10 Nationalities of Migrants who arrived in 2002 Leaving NZ by 2005

Nationality/Percent
Taiwan 49%
Singapore 34%
Malaysia 31%
Hong Kong 29%
China 23%
Canada 18%
USA 17%
Germany 16%
Japan 16%
Indonesia 15%
Others 9%