New Zealand's Population Exodus Hits 13-Year High as Economy Worsens (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/109215/new-zealands-population-exodus-hits-13-year-high-as-economy-worsens
- Source link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/zealands-population-exodus-hits-13-035658551.html
> Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Friday showed 71,800 New Zealand citizens departed New Zealand in the year ended June 2025, up from 67,500 in the previous 12-month period and below the record 72,400 in the year ended February 2012. New Zealand's net migration, which is the number of those arriving minus those leaving, also fell with foreign nationals moving to the country of 5.3 million nearly halving from 2024.
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/zealands-population-exodus-hits-13-035658551.html
I am not sure what the relevance (Score:2)
of this to Slashdot is. Their does not seem to be any technical content.
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Uhhh, you know... statistics. Or something. Techies love New Zealand?
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oh, you know perfectly well why it was posted.
It's a troll. Stir up the pot. That's all msmash is good for.
Technical articles here have comments numbering in the low-dozens to single-digits.
Politically-charged tripe will get hundreds. Much more engagement, and that is the only thing this place cares about.
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> of this to Slashdot is. Their does not seem to be any technical content.
Slashdotters love Lord of the Rings , and the movies were shot in New Zealand. 'nuff said.
It's Boomer rage bait (Score:2)
Which given the average age of slashdot readers is in a roundabout way relevant I guess...
As an added bonus there's a lot of right wingers here who eat crap like this up. Like all this stories about how LA is a burnt out hellscape ala mad Max beyond thunderdome.
Anyway one of the editors must have noticed the page views around here going down in greenlit this for engagement. I guess if you squint real hard and maybe drink a little booze and snort a little Coke and smoke some weed and eat some of the
Net migration numbers? (Score:2)
New Zealand's net migration, which is the number of those arriving minus those leaving, also fell with foreign nationals moving to the country of 5.3 million nearly halving from 2024.
It would be nice if the article didn't forget to mention what was the net migration number which was - drum roll - a 27,100 gain in 2024 after a peak record of 128,300 gain in 2023. Net migration 2001-2019 average gain was 29,100.
Natives are leaving much more than non-natives. But, yeah, in general that's actually expected.
[1]http [stats.govt.nz]
[1] https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/net-migration-falls-in-2024/
Blame easier money (Score:3)
If you dig in the numbers the most common reason for people to leave is chasing quick money in Australia. If you are in your earning prime then living in Australia for a while is an easier way to build wealth as pay there is higher while the lifestyle is similar, if you ignore that number of animals they have that want to kill you.
It is quite common for Kiwis to move there, build up savings and return home. Some like it better and stay.
I was never a fan of Robert Muldoon, but his funnest quote was "New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries". Sorry Australia, I couldn't resist...
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Not Mexicans but Indians seem to be filling the void in New Zealand. "Singh" was the most common surname for babies born in the country for the seventh year in a row.
Re: Mexicans (Score:1)
Western societies are largely transforming into Asian ones (and might get there in a few years). With an inability to support fertility rates, frantic pursuit of GDP and a pretence that immigration is beneficial, are going to hollow out the western culture and establish the Asian way of life sooner. Everyone, including the immigrants, would at some point realise that the western life is a mirage: canâ(TM)t have a family, no home, endless debt and a govt who seems to be doing everything to destroy the s
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I don't want to appear to minimise the severity of our problems in general, but some of those you cited, in my opinion, are cheaply transposed from USA and don't apply directly. When you say endless debt, for example, I answer that in France (the stats I can get easily) 70% of payment cards are Debit, most people will never own a Credit card. "No home" is difficult to address, 95.8% percent of Romanians are homeowners, while 41.6% of Swiss are homeowners ( [1]https://www.cnews.fr/monde/202... [cnews.fr] source, in French
[1] https://www.cnews.fr/monde/2023-03-12/immobilier-voici-les-9-pays-avec-le-plus-de-proprietaires-en-europe-1331250