The stats behind some of NZ’s covid success
Te Whanganui-a-Tara – Stats NZ has just released the latest international travel arrivals into Aotearoa which shows overseas visitor arrivals were down by 367,400 to 5300 in February, compared to February last year.
The biggest changes were in arrivals from:
Australia (down 131,400)
United States (down 51,800)
United Kingdom (down 37,900)
Germany (down 15,900)
Canada (down 13,400)
Japan (down 12,900)
Korea (down 11,000)
India (down 7,800)
France (down 6,300)
Netherlands (down 5,100).
Meanwhile, annual migrant departures exceeded migrant arrivals among non-New Zealand people for the first time since the late 1970s
In February, a provisional net loss of 1400 non-New Zealand citizens and a net gain of 18,900 New Zealand citizens made up an overall net migration gain of 17,400 people.
Historically, New Zealand has had an annual net migration gain of non-New Zealand people and an annual net migration loss of New Zealand people, StatsNZ population indicators manager Tehseen Islam says.
Lisa was born in Auckland at the start of the 1970s, living in a small campsite community on the North Shore called Browns Bay. She spent a significant part of her life with her grandparents, often hanging out at the beaches. Lisa has many happy memories from those days at Browns Bay beach, where fish were plentiful on the point and the ocean was rich in seaweed. She played in the water for hours, going home totally “sun-kissed.” “An adorable time to grow up,” Lisa tells me.
Lisa enjoyed many sports; she was a keen tennis player and netballer, playing in the top teams for her age right up until the family moved to Wellington. Lisa was fifteen years old, which unfortunately marked the end of her sporting career. Local teams were well established in Wellington, and her attention was drawn elsewhere.