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# Permanent additions by country of birth, Australia, 1996-97 to 2016-17

People added to Australia's permanent population each financial year from 1996-97 to 2016-17, by region and country of birth.

This is a copy of the 2025-11-10 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 5,238 rows and 6 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/au-permanent-additions-by-country/v/2025-11-10/ in 8 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

## Attribution

The data is published by Department of Home Affairs under CC BY 3.0 AU, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/. The licence requires this attribution:

> Department of Home Affairs, Australian Government, Historical Migration Statistics, sourced 29 September 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/historical-migration-statistics, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

> Department of Home Affairs, Australian Government, Historical Migration Statistics, sourced 29 September 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/historical-migration-statistics, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-permanent-additions-by-country/v/2025-11-10/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

## Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/au-permanent-additions-by-country/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as `v<date>`, so `load_dataset("National-Digital/au-permanent-additions-by-country", revision="v2025-11-10")` always returns these rows.

## Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

```
https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-permanent-additions-by-country/rows?limit=10
```

## Fields

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `table` | string | Table |
| `year` | string | A financial year, or the part year the publisher names. |
| `region` | string | Region |
| `country` | string | Country of birth |
| `permanent_additions` | integer | Permanent additions |
| `suppressed` | array | Names of the fields the publisher suppressed in this row. The suppressed cells are null. |

`publicdata.json` beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.