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 SquidMEnglish
    -7•4 months ago

    I can only assume you’re thinking, but refusing to answer, “no, the European-descended people on the Falkland Islands don’t count as indigenous (definition 2) because they were ‘colonists’ and didn’t arrive before themselves.”

    Well that’s a silly assumption since it literally goes against the definition.

    • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•4 months ago

      You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. That’s it? That’s all you’re gonna say? After dicking me around and forcing me to spend a bunch of time trying to anticipate your half of the conversation (at least if I wanted to get a conclusion to it), you’re just going to mock me for guessing wrong?!

      Goddamnit, this is why I wanted you to just give me a straight answer in the first place!

      You’re a mod – ban yourself for violating rule 5 or 6 or something! Fuck!

      • Flying SquidMEnglish
        -8•4 months ago

        I didn’t force you to do anything. I simply refused to do what you demanded.

        • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7•4 months ago

          You baited me by engaging in less-than-good faith. If you didn’t want to have a conversation, you could’ve just not replied!

          • Flying SquidMEnglish
            -8•4 months ago

            I did nothing of the sort. I gave you a definition. I never said or even implied anything other than what the definition said. I cannot help what you assume just because I refuse to do what you order me to do.

              • Flying SquidMEnglish
                -6•4 months ago

                I’m not trying to accomplish anything. You’re the one making demands and getting angry at me about things only you are responsible for.