Immigration to Australia, 1992 & 2002

This pie chart shows the amount of immigration to Australia in 1992. Immigration from Europe and former USSR is the largest group, followed by people from Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia. A third of the immigration came from other regions such as South Asia, Oceania, Africa and America.

This pie chart shows the amount of immigration to Australia in 2002. There were nearly twenty thousand immigrants coming from Oceania, which was the largest amount of immigration that year. Nearly half of the immigrants came from Europe, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia altogether. Less than a quarter of  the immigrants came from other regions such as South Asia, Africa and America.

This bar chart compares the number of immigrants to Australia in 1992 and 2002. The number of immigrants from Europe and former USSR dropped by almost ten thousand from 1992 to 2002, which makes this group no longer the largest. Meanwhile, people from Oceania increased by almost ten thousand during this period.