01 NATIONAL MIGRATION MONITOR // AUSTRALIA
A CITY LARGER
THAN HOBART.
EVERY YEAR.
Net overseas migration added 301,000 people in the latest twelve-month period. Greater Hobart has a population of 255,300.
02 MODELLED INTAKE // SYDNEY TIME
THE RATE, RUNNING NOW
Estimated from the latest ABS annual rate and live to the second. An arrival marker flashes every 56 seconds — the precise rate calculated from 568,000 arrivals divided across the seconds in a year — as a visual pulse; the figures themselves are always the real current estimate. Official border data is published after the reporting period.
03 ENTRY PATHWAYS // FY 2024-25
THE TEMPORARY PIPELINE
DWARFS THE PERMANENT INTAKE
The detailed visa breakdown is published annually. It uses the visa or citizenship status held on the migrant's arrival date.
63.9% of all migrant arrivals
15.5% of all migrant arrivals
ALERT LARGEST SINGLE ARRIVAL GROUP
THE STUDENT
PIPELINE
Temporary students accounted for 156,700 migrant arrivals in 2024-25. That was almost 1.8 times the entire permanent-visa arrival group.
04 FULL CATEGORY READOUT
THE WHOLE SYSTEM
The ABS migration definition captures people across temporary, permanent and citizenship categories.
SNAPSHOT AT 31 DECEMBER 2025 // HOME AFFAIRS
SNAPSHOT MEASURE: This stock figure describes people present on one date. Keep it separate from annual migrant-arrival and NOM figures.
05 DEFINITIONS // SOURCES // METHOD
WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN
NET OVERSEAS MIGRATION
The official population-change measure. Migrant arrivals minus migrant departures under the ABS 12-in-16-month rule.
MIGRANT ARRIVALS
People living overseas who arrived and then spent at least 12 months in Australia during the following 16 months.
TEMPORARY HOLDERS PRESENT
A point-in-time Home Affairs snapshot of temporary entrants and New Zealand citizens physically present in Australia.
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ACTION PUT AUSTRALIANS FIRST
AUSTRALIA NEEDS
NET NEGATIVE MIGRATION
Australia needs breathing room to restore housing affordability, rebuild infrastructure, relieve pressure on essential services and give Australian families a stable future. A sustained period of net negative migration is the minimum required to rebuild national capacity.
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