{"id":278993,"date":"2018-10-25T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=278993"},"modified":"2018-10-25T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:54:16","slug":"heres-how-many-south-africans-are-leaving-for-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/278993\/heres-how-many-south-africans-are-leaving-for-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how many South Africans are leaving for New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

While New Zealand reports a decline in net migration in 2018 after reaching a record high in 2017, the number of South Africans moving to the island country<\/span> continues to grow.<\/p>\n

According to a Statistics New Zealand<\/a><\/strong> report released earlier this month, annual net migration was 62,700 for the year ended September 2018 – down 8,300 from the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Of these there were 129,000 migrant arrivals (down 2,600) and 66,200 migrant departures (up 5,600) compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Of the 66,200 migrant departures more than half were New Zealand citizens (34,500). However, non-New Zealand citizens leaving the country rose to 31,800 over the 12 months.<\/p>\n

“The increase in migrant departures, and decrease in migrant arrivals, both contributed to a lower net migration level,” population insights senior manager Brooke Theyers said.<\/p>\n

“However, the increase in migrant departures had a greater effect as the change was larger, particularly for non-New Zealand citizens.”<\/p>\n

South Africans moving\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statistics provided to BusinessTech by Stats NZ show that the number of permanent South African arrivals has steadily increased over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n

South Africans choose to move to New Zealand for numerous reasons, most notably because its safe, is child friendly, and for job opportunities.<\/p>\n

Historically these South Africans have entered the country on residence and work visas, however, the data shows that there has also been an increase in student visa-arrivals in recent years.<\/p>\n

A May report<\/a> <\/strong>by\u00a0American think tank, Pew Research, estimated that there are currently 60,000 South African migrants living in New Zealand at the end of 2017 – the fourth highest migrant population outside of South Africa.<\/p>\n

According to Pew Research, New Zealand is only surpassed by the\u00a0United Kingdom (210,000), Australia (190,000),\u00a0 and the United States (100,000).<\/p>\n

Permanent & long-term arrivals by South Africans and visa type<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/th>\nResidence visa<\/th>\nStudent visa<\/th>\nVisitor visa<\/th>\nWork visa<\/th>\nOther<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\n469<\/td>\n162<\/td>\n325<\/td>\n428<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1 384<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\n409<\/td>\n180<\/td>\n407<\/td>\n505<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n1 507<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\n724<\/td>\n187<\/td>\n351<\/td>\n456<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1 718<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\n660<\/td>\n344<\/td>\n368<\/td>\n675<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n2 051<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\n704<\/td>\n544<\/td>\n541<\/td>\n1 141<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2 933<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\n752<\/td>\n429<\/td>\n279<\/td>\n691<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n2 163<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\n628<\/td>\n145<\/td>\n133<\/td>\n276<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1 186<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\n611<\/td>\n145<\/td>\n135<\/td>\n310<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1 202<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\n494<\/td>\n175<\/td>\n149<\/td>\n339<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1 158<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\n391<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n165<\/td>\n412<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n1 140<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\n531<\/td>\n264<\/td>\n201<\/td>\n591<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1 589<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\n493<\/td>\n352<\/td>\n278<\/td>\n856<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n1 982<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\n576<\/td>\n842<\/td>\n514<\/td>\n1 864<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n3 799<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\n659<\/td>\n1 225<\/td>\n679<\/td>\n2 565<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n5 133<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\n444<\/td>\n1 413<\/td>\n714<\/td>\n2 953<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n5 534<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Read:\u00a0This UK hotel is launching <\/a>a budget<\/a> pod-style rooms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statistics provided to BusinessTech to by Stats NZ show that the number of permanent South African arrivals has steadily increased over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":147633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-278993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278993"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280111,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278993\/revisions\/280111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}