More New Zealanders are coming home to live and fewer are leaving, according to latest Statistics New Zealand figures.
The number of New Zealanders coming home on a permanent or long-term basis were up 3400 to 24,500 in the April 2002 year, compared with the April 2001 year, as were the number of non-New Zealand citizens -- up 19,100 to 65,300.
Fewer New Zealanders left in the same period -- down 16,400 to 47,000, while the number of non-New Zealanders who left was also down 500 to 15,000.
That resulted in a total 22,300 New Zealand citizens leaving and 50,400 non-New Zealand citizens moving here in the April 2002 year, Statistics NZ said in a statement.
In the year ended April 2002, permanent and long-term arrivals reached a new high of 89,900, up 22,500 on the last April year.
Conversely, there were 16,900 fewer such departures.
The overall result was a total of 28,100 permanent and long-term migrants arriving in 2002, compared 11,400 in the previous year.
The number of departures for Australia had almost halved -- 15,400 in the 2002 year compared with 31,100 in the April 2001 year.
Conversely, there were significant arrivals from China (13,200), India (5300), the United Kingdom (3900), South Africa (3200), Fiji (2,400) and Japan (2,300).
- NZPA
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