and the 8th highest immigration of all countries, regardless of population. (also [1]).
Australia has a massive, massive amount of immigration.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...
Australia has a cap on permanent immigration per year of around 200,000. That Wikipedia page is claiming 45 per 1,000 inhabitants, which gets you closer to one million net migration. That conveniently ignores the far more important number: how many people are actually allowed to stay on a permanent basis?
Further, about half those ~200,000 allocated per year go to people already in Australia.
Back in reality, Australia is extremely restrictive when it comes to allowing permanent immigration. It has a lot of temporary work immigration.
https://insidestory.org.au/how-many-migrants-come-to-austral...
So the 1,023,107 listed from 2007-2012 is 204,621 per year.
Sounds spot on to me.
>Further, about half those ~200,000 per year go to people already in Australia
Sure, but they are not permanent in Australia, and immigration means they became permanent. It's not really relevant where they started from.
Australia is allowing ~1 million people each 5 years to becoming permanent, which is a huge number... in fact 8th in the world overall.
It's the same for every other country, so the comparison to other countries is still spot on.