The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed that of Australia’s last three million permanent migrants arriving in the country between January 1, 2000, and August 10, 2021, a total of 59 percent are Australian citizens.
Commenting on this data, head of migrant statistics at ABS Jenny Dobak said that based on these statistics for recent permanent visa holders in Australia, a large proportion are now Australian citizens, with those on Australian skilled visas the most likely have become Australian citizens (64 percent) compared to those on Humanitarian visas (61 percent), VisaGuide.World reports.
She also pointed out that a total of 1.7 million or 58 percent of permanent migrants were granted a permanent visa as their first visa, which was higher for humanitarian migrants (93 percent), and those on family visas (75 percent). According to her, of this above-mentioned figure, 53 percent of the migrants who received a permanent visa were women.
“1.3 million permanent migrants were first granted a temporary visa before becoming a permanent migrant – most commonly a Temporary Student visa,” Dobak noted.
Based on ABS statistics, the main country of birth among immigrants is India with 439,000 people.
Moreover, data provided by the ABS show that the majority of permanent migrants are of working age, with around two-thirds between the ages of 20 and 44. At the same time, a large proportion of permanent migrants have a bachelor’s degree or higher qualification as well, thus making valuable contributions to the Australian workforce and economy.
The ABS report revealed that by 2021 a total of 71 percent of permanent migrants were employed, which represents the highest figure for skilled migrants (81 percent).
As Dobak explains, in terms of main occupations, ten percent of migrants from the family visa stream and 14 percent of migrants from the humanitarian visa stream were employed as Caregivers and Helpers.
Meanwhile, for migrants from the skilled visa stream, the most common occupation was business, human resources and marketing professional at ten percent.
Further ABS statistics shows that, about 20 percent of qualified migrants were born in India (20 percent), while 22 percent, almost one in five humanitarian migrants were born in Iraq.
Regarding permanent migrants including 15-year-olds, 91 percent of them or 2.4 million had an education level of ten years or more, which is slightly higher than people aged 15 and over in the Australian population with 89 percent. In addition, a total of 1.4 million or 51 percent of them had a Bachelor’s degree or higher.
The post 59% of Permanent Migrants Who Reached Australia Between 2000-2021 Are Now Australian Citizens appeared first on VisaGuide.World.
