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People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic, government statistics show.

Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Tuesday showed that 131,200 people departed New Zealand in the year ended June 2024, provisionally the highest on record for an annual period. Around a third of these were headed to Australia.

While net migration, the number of those arriving minus those leaving, remains at high levels, economists also expect this to wane as the number of foreign nationals wanting to move to New Zealand falls due to the softer economy.

The data showed of those departing 80,174 were citizens, which was almost double the numbers seen leaving prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      91·
      4 months ago

      I get that. It just seemed to me, at least before I found that out, that it was a uniquely American form of music.

      Like imagine if you were from Mongolia, and someone was like, “throat-singing? We love that shit in Paraguay!” You’d probably think like I did about country music.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.ccEnglish
        61·
        4 months ago

        I guess so.

        I think you can safely assume that most American culture is imported into Australia, the good and the bad.

        Some ass-hats are trying to ban books about non-binary sexuality from our library. I had thought that was uniquely American.