Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia

Latest release

Statistics on international travel arriving in and departing from Australia

Reference period

September 2025

Released

12/11/2025

Release date and time

12/11/2025 11:30am AEDT

Key statistics

In September 2025:

Short-term visitor arrivals: 696,500 – an increase of 10.4% on one year earlier.
Short-term resident returns: 1,050,090 – an increase of 2.9% on one year earlier.
Total arrivals: 1,830,370 – an increase of 5.6% on one year earlier.
Total departures: 1,921,380 – an increase of 6.9% on one year earlier.

These statistics report on the number of international border crossings rather than the number of people. Most data in this release are rounded to the nearest 10. As a result, sums of components may not add exactly to totals.

Overseas migration statistics

This release presents statistics on all overseas arrivals and departures, which is not the same as overseas migration statistics. Overseas arrivals and departures (OAD) data, including permanent and long-term movements, should not be used as a measure of overseas migration. This data does not reflect the official ABS definition of migration and may lead to inaccurate interpretations. For instance, OAD permanent and long-term arrivals may be increasing while actual overseas migrant arrivals are decreasing for the same period.

For accurate insights into overseas migration, please refer to the ABS’s official overseas migration statistics:

Arrivals and departures

1.1 Total overseas arrivals and departures - September 2015 to October 2025 (a)
	Arrivals (M)	Departures (M)
Sep 2015	1.46	1.48
Oct 2015	1.65	1.40
Nov 2015	1.42	1.44
Dec 2015	1.58	1.85
Jan 2016	1.91	1.64
Feb 2016	1.56	1.37
Mar 2016	1.48	1.54
Apr 2016	1.47	1.49
May 2016	1.30	1.39
Jun 2016	1.33	1.58
Jul 2016	1.83	1.57
Aug 2016	1.51	1.55
Sep 2016	1.59	1.60
Oct 2016	1.78	1.50
Nov 2016	1.51	1.54
Dec 2016	1.72	1.99
Jan 2017	2.07	1.78
Feb 2017	1.63	1.39
Mar 2017	1.52	1.58
Apr 2017	1.65	1.71
May 2017	1.40	1.49
Jun 2017	1.42	1.67
Jul 2017	1.91	1.65
Aug 2017	1.62	1.66
Sep 2017	1.67	1.70
Oct 2017	1.88	1.57
Nov 2017	1.60	1.64
Dec 2017	1.76	2.08
Jan 2018	2.13	1.81
Feb 2018	1.73	1.52
Mar 2018	1.68	1.74
Apr 2018	1.67	1.71
May 2018	1.48	1.56
Jun 2018	1.51	1.79
Jul 2018	2.01	1.73
Aug 2018	1.72	1.77
Sep 2018	1.72	1.76
Oct 2018	1.96	1.64
Nov 2018	1.67	1.72
Dec 2018	1.85	2.18
Jan 2019	2.22	1.91
Feb 2019	1.79	1.52
Mar 2019	1.66	1.68
Apr 2019	1.67	1.83
May 2019	1.59	1.63
Jun 2019	1.56	1.80
Jul 2019	2.01	1.76
Aug 2019	1.78	1.81
Sep 2019	1.75	1.80
Oct 2019	1.98	1.68
Nov 2019	1.72	1.74
Dec 2019	1.89	2.24
Jan 2020	2.26	1.97
Feb 2020	1.57	1.29
Mar 2020	0.92	0.83
Apr 2020	0.02	0.06
May 2020	0.02	0.03
Jun 2020	0.03	0.04
Jul 2020	0.02	0.06
Aug 2020	0.01	0.06
Sep 2020	0.02	0.05
Oct 2020	0.02	0.05
Nov 2020	0.03	0.04
Dec 2020	0.03	0.05
Jan 2021	0.03	0.04
Feb 2021	0.03	0.03
Mar 2021	0.03	0.03
Apr 2021	0.05	0.06
May 2021	0.11	0.11
Jun 2021	0.10	0.10
Jul 2021	0.07	0.09
Aug 2021	0.03	0.04
Sep 2021	0.02	0.03
Oct 2021	0.02	0.04
Nov 2021	0.07	0.09
Dec 2021	0.20	0.23
Jan 2022	0.27	0.19
Feb 2022	0.27	0.18
Mar 2022	0.37	0.34
Apr 2022	0.57	0.61
May 2022	0.65	0.66
Jun 2022	0.73	0.88
Jul 2022	1.08	0.97
Aug 2022	1.03	0.94
Sep 2022	1.07	1.04
Oct 2022	1.21	1.01
Nov 2022	1.19	1.18
Dec 2022	1.26	1.52
Jan 2023	1.61	1.38
Feb 2023	1.38	1.07
Mar 2023	1.34	1.32
Apr 2023	1.37	1.43
May 2023	1.30	1.36
Jun 2023	1.36	1.56
Jul 2023	1.74	1.49
Aug 2023	1.54	1.52
Sep 2023	1.60	1.59
Oct 2023	1.74	1.48
Nov 2023	1.56	1.59
Dec 2023	1.70	2.03
Jan 2024	2.12	1.75
Feb 2024	1.79	1.49
Mar 2024	1.61	1.71
Apr 2024	1.63	1.65
May 2024	1.48	1.56
Jun 2024	1.53	1.76
Jul 2024	1.93	1.65
Aug 2024	1.66	1.69
Sep 2024	1.73	1.80
Oct 2024	1.94	1.66
Nov 2024	1.71	1.78
Dec 2024	1.85	2.26
Jan 2025	2.38	2.03
Feb 2025	1.87	1.52
Mar 2025	1.69	1.67
Apr 2025	1.76	1.93
May 2025	1.66	1.68
Jun 2025	1.62	1.81
Jul 2025	2.07	1.82
Aug 2025	1.81	1.83
Sep 2025	1.83	1.92
Oct 2025	2.10	1.82

1.1 Total overseas arrivals and departures - September 2015 to October 2025 (a)

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Provisional data for the most recent month has not had the full quality assurance methods applied as is done for the earlier months. Provisional estimates will be revised in the next issue of this publication.

1.2 Arrivals and departures by category of travel - selected months(a)(b)
Category of travel	Sep 2019 (no.)	Sep 2023 (no.)	Sep 2024 (no.)	Sep 2025 (no.)	Sep 2024 to Sep 2025 change (%)
Permanent arrivals	7,520	11,850	12,160	11,130	-8.5
Long-term resident returns	10,630	11,600	11,250	11,210	-0.3
Short-term resident returns	992,820	939,060	1,020,960	1,050,090	2.9
Long-term visitor arrivals	40,170	55,590	58,280	61,440	5.4
Short-term visitor arrivals	694,960	584,620	630,700	696,500	10.4
Total arrivals	1,746,100	1,602,720	1,733,340	1,830,370	5.6
Long-term resident departures	16,930	17,930	19,630	16,700	-15.0
Short-term resident departures	1,133,100	1,062,530	1,172,430	1,244,690	6.2
Long-term visitor departures	18,560	22,590	27,140	31,180	14.9
Short-term visitor departures	627,950	486,460	577,350	628,820	8.9
Total departures	1,796,540	1,589,500	1,796,550	1,921,380	6.9

For further information about categories of travel, see the Glossary section of the Methodology page.
Category of travel data is not available from provisional estimates.

Visitor arrivals - short-term

Compares international visitor arrivals each month by source country and change at the state and territory level. Analysis in this section is undertaken on short-term trips (less than 1 year).

For short-term visitor arrivals to Australia in September 2025:

A total of 696,500 trips were recorded, an increase of 65,800 (10.4%) compared with the corresponding month of the previous year.
The number of trips was 0.2% higher than the pre-COVID level in September 2019.
New Zealand was the largest source country, accounting for 19.5% of all visitor arrivals.

2.1 Short-term visitor arrivals
	Short-term visitor arrivals, Australia ('000)
Sep 2015	571.99
Oct 2015	625.80
Nov 2015	671.54
Dec 2015	901.32
Jan 2016	617.67
Feb 2016	798.61
Mar 2016	757.35
Apr 2016	610.50
May 2016	541.28
Jun 2016	555.07
Jul 2016	715.78
Aug 2016	632.14
Sep 2016	647.04
Oct 2016	695.92
Nov 2016	721.83
Dec 2016	976.15
Jan 2017	723.99
Feb 2017	787.58
Mar 2017	772.23
Apr 2017	700.01
May 2017	579.09
Jun 2017	606.01
Jul 2017	746.41
Aug 2017	702.90
Sep 2017	663.59
Oct 2017	741.36
Nov 2017	777.09
Dec 2017	1,015.04
Jan 2018	702.58
Feb 2018	914.53
Mar 2018	872.35
Apr 2018	679.78
May 2018	609.45
Jun 2018	646.65
Jul 2018	774.36
Aug 2018	741.71
Sep 2018	690.19
Oct 2018	753.96
Nov 2018	802.16
Dec 2018	1,057.90
Jan 2019	731.13
Feb 2019	927.24
Mar 2019	836.35
Apr 2019	700.37
May 2019	668.28
Jun 2019	660.34
Jul 2019	790.38
Aug 2019	789.20
Sep 2019	694.96
Oct 2019	774.02
Nov 2019	815.91
Dec 2019	1,077.72
Jan 2020	766.59
Feb 2020	685.41
Mar 2020	331.89
Apr 2020	2.25
May 2020	3.44
Jun 2020	5.40
Jul 2020	3.53
Aug 2020	3.03
Sep 2020	3.72
Oct 2020	6.07
Nov 2020	7.57
Dec 2020	8.82
Jan 2021	7.99
Feb 2021	6.26
Mar 2021	8.32
Apr 2021	22.61
May 2021	36.19
Jun 2021	36.77
Jul 2021	18.72
Aug 2021	6.39
Sep 2021	4.43
Oct 2021	4.41
Nov 2021	20.86
Dec 2021	73.29
Jan 2022	60.76
Feb 2022	90.46
Mar 2022	170.25
Apr 2022	235.46
May 2022	231.48
Jun 2022	275.30
Jul 2022	325.68
Aug 2022	348.44
Sep 2022	371.85
Oct 2022	430.47
Nov 2022	505.24
Dec 2022	648.97
Jan 2023	412.41
Feb 2023	600.71
Mar 2023	613.34
Apr 2023	544.92
May 2023	512.33
Jun 2023	542.08
Jul 2023	625.12
Aug 2023	603.36
Sep 2023	584.62
Oct 2023	607.93
Nov 2023	663.76
Dec 2023	876.86
Jan 2024	603.77
Feb 2024	857.95
Mar 2024	761.05
Apr 2024	593.09
May 2024	600.78
Jun 2024	587.76
Jul 2024	658.97
Aug 2024	658.81
Sep 2024	630.70
Oct 2024	677.41
Nov 2024	695.36
Dec 2024	945.28
Jan 2025	710.04
Feb 2025	787.77
Mar 2025	761.23
Apr 2025	641.15
May 2025	611.18
Jun 2025	624.51
Jul 2025	743.21
Aug 2025	753.32
Sep 2025	696.50

2.1 Short-term visitor arrivals

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Countries where visitors came from

The three leading source countries where visitors came from were:

New Zealand (135,720 trips)
China (83,080)
The UK (46,900).

2.2 Short-term visitor arrivals, Australia - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
New Zealand	126,990	128,820	118,440	135,720
China(b)	98,990	59,080	73,570	83,080
UK	41,300	35,950	41,980	46,900
USA	48,380	36,400	41,370	41,820
Singapore	36,260	31,140	31,370	39,590
Japan	40,750	25,130	32,570	34,260
India	32,020	29,370	33,200	33,870
Korea, South	19,980	27,700	29,910	28,570
Malaysia	33,400	16,440	23,090	24,710
Indonesia	15,760	14,630	17,800	17,820

2.2 Short-term visitor arrivals, Australia - top 10 source countries(a)

["Country of Residence","Sep 2019","Sep 2023","Sep 2024","Sep 2025"]

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Top 10 source countries for September 2025.
Excludes SARs and Taiwan.

State or territory of stay

All travellers are asked their intended address in Australia upon arrival. For September 2025:

The highest number of visitor arrivals for short-term trips was observed for New South Wales (256,380)
Tasmania recorded the fewest (5,110).

2.3 Short-term visitor arrivals, state or territory of stay - September 2025

This map presents the number of short-term visitor arrivals in Australia in September 2025, by their state of intended stay.

2.4 Short-term visitor arrivals, state or territory of stay
State or territory of stay	Sep 2019 (no.)	Sep 2023 (no.)	Sep 2024 (no.)	Sep 2025 (no.)	Sep 2024 to Sep 2025 change (%)
NSW	251,730	220,760	233,670	256,380	9.7
Vic.	168,980	139,180	151,000	157,920	4.6
Qld	160,010	135,030	141,630	159,890	12.9
SA	22,780	16,690	17,950	20,400	13.6
WA	69,390	57,120	67,930	81,940	20.6
Tas.	5,130	3,790	4,230	5,110	20.7
NT	8,450	4,110	4,820	6,630	37.4
ACT	8,460	7,790	9,370	8,200	-12.5
Australia(a)	694,960	584,620	630,700	696,500	10.4

Includes Other Territories.

Countries where visitors came from - state and territory

The top source countries varied across states and territories, and also differed from those at the national level.

State and territory graphs - top 10 source countries

2.5 Short-term visitor arrivals, NSW - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
China(b)	42,130	28,040	35,250	40,980
New Zealand	37,230	39,880	34,470	38,220
USA	24,740	17,060	19,990	20,740
Korea, South	11,480	20,000	20,210	19,920
UK	13,960	12,700	14,150	15,790
Japan	12,880	8,710	11,000	12,040
India	11,320	10,000	10,760	10,410
Singapore	8,670	7,030	7,670	8,740
Hong Kong	7,990	5,580	5,850	6,880
Philippines	5,800	5,370	6,030	6,380

2.6 Short-term visitor arrivals, Vic - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
New Zealand	26,960	26,730	23,120	26,280
China(b)	31,700	19,510	23,730	24,410
India	12,040	11,430	12,840	13,380
Singapore	9,310	8,180	8,220	8,740
UK	8,380	6,760	7,990	8,250
Malaysia	11,100	5,410	7,530	7,740
USA	9,720	7,430	8,220	7,550
Indonesia	4,680	4,760	5,510	6,100
Hong Kong	5,290	4,070	4,920	5,000
Japan	5,350	3,370	5,060	4,900

2.7 Short-term visitor arrivals, Qld - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
New Zealand	51,820	51,250	48,570	58,460
Japan	16,150	10,460	13,640	13,590
UK	9,820	8,340	10,000	11,340
USA	8,210	7,060	7,920	7,500
China(b)	13,100	4,790	6,950	7,260
Singapore	5,380	6,400	4,130	6,300
Taiwan	5,440	3,490	3,890	4,450
India	4,240	2,770	4,140	4,080
Korea, South	3,780	3,460	4,420	3,990
PNG	3,480	2,820	3,410	3,200

2.8 Short-term visitor arrivals, SA - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
China(b)	3,680	1,770	2,040	3,180
New Zealand	3,030	2,670	2,990	2,450
India	1,370	1,700	1,870	2,000
USA	1,270	1,200	990	1,470
UK	1,600	1,070	1,120	1,430
Singapore	1,130	840	860	1,110
Malaysia	1,330	850	810	730
Hong Kong	1,030	490	680	600
Japan	750	420	480	570
Nepal	190	280	370	510

2.9 Short-term visitor arrivals, WA - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
Singapore	10,290	7,980	9,570	13,690
Malaysia	10,170	4,710	7,980	9,770
UK	6,310	6,270	7,540	8,960
New Zealand	5,570	6,390	6,520	7,370
China(b)	5,770	3,050	3,660	5,090
Indonesia	2,860	2,880	3,800	3,430
India	2,260	2,330	2,650	2,930
France	1,240	1,800	2,120	2,820
Japan	4,330	1,770	1,980	2,650
USA	2,430	2,000	2,230	2,590

2.10 Short-term visitor arrivals, Tas - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
New Zealand	790	710	700	910
China(b)	790	420	400	540
Hong Kong	760	280	330	450
Singapore	620	390	390	440
USA	410	230	360	390
UK	190	190	270	280
India	60	220	120	260
Malaysia	270	100	240	210
Nepal	30	100	150	200
Taiwan	160	110	80	160

2.11 Short-term visitor arrivals, NT - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
New Zealand	780	310	640	930
USA	640	650	750	900
UK	690	340	410	500
France	370	140	110	360
Germany	550	310	340	340
Singapore	440	120	270	290
Indonesia	280	110	140	270
Japan	910	120	90	220
Italy	70	70	90	190
Timor-Leste	100	120	100	180

2.12 Short-term visitor arrivals, ACT - top 10 source countries(a)
Country of Residence	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
China(b)	1,440	1,380	1,410	1,450
New Zealand	810	890	1,430	1,100
USA	930	720	840	690
India	570	800	710	680
Nepal	60	310	260	450
UK	360	230	500	350
Philippines	230	220	250	320
Singapore	420	200	270	280
Canada	150	170	190	210
Indonesia	130	220	310	180

Resident returns - short-term

Compares international resident returns each month by destination country and change at the state and territory level. Analysis in this section is undertaken on short-term trips (less than 1 year).

For residents returning from short-term overseas trips in September 2025:

A total of 1,050,090 trips were recorded, an increase of 29,140 (2.9%) compared with the corresponding month of the previous year.
The number of trips was 5.8% higher than the pre-COVID level in September 2019.
Indonesia was the most popular destination country, accounting for 15.2% of all resident returns.

3.1 Short-term resident returns
	Short-term resident returns, Australia ('000)
Sep 2015	834.87
Oct 2015	971.25
Nov 2015	705.37
Dec 2015	627.77
Jan 2016	1,209.17
Feb 2016	668.15
Mar 2016	664.19
Apr 2016	812.52
May 2016	719.28
Jun 2016	721.85
Jul 2016	1,024.59
Aug 2016	822.32
Sep 2016	883.76
Oct 2016	1,024.64
Nov 2016	738.73
Dec 2016	680.56
Jan 2017	1,260.36
Feb 2017	738.70
Mar 2017	690.43
Apr 2017	893.92
May 2017	775.96
Jun 2017	763.18
Jul 2017	1,070.74
Aug 2017	863.23
Sep 2017	946.17
Oct 2017	1,078.68
Nov 2017	773.11
Dec 2017	680.77
Jan 2018	1,336.96
Feb 2018	709.02
Mar 2018	740.73
Apr 2018	929.04
May 2018	822.24
Jun 2018	808.71
Jul 2018	1,133.60
Aug 2018	916.20
Sep 2018	973.97
Oct 2018	1,147.82
Nov 2018	810.32
Dec 2018	732.81
Jan 2019	1,392.85
Feb 2019	746.08
Mar 2019	753.51
Apr 2019	916.43
May 2019	866.28
Jun 2019	841.95
Jul 2019	1,122.59
Aug 2019	930.97
Sep 2019	992.82
Oct 2019	1,145.97
Nov 2019	849.79
Dec 2019	749.66
Jan 2020	1,397.42
Feb 2020	785.39
Mar 2020	538.36
Apr 2020	17.05
May 2020	13.38
Jun 2020	15.76
Jul 2020	10.28
Aug 2020	8.07
Sep 2020	8.17
Oct 2020	11.17
Nov 2020	13.00
Dec 2020	14.30
Jan 2021	11.35
Feb 2021	8.39
Mar 2021	9.25
Apr 2021	16.99
May 2021	62.36
Jun 2021	50.49
Jul 2021	41.83
Aug 2021	10.31
Sep 2021	6.04
Oct 2021	5.07
Nov 2021	25.91
Dec 2021	52.83
Jan 2022	151.57
Feb 2022	116.86
Mar 2022	146.34
Apr 2022	282.63
May 2022	360.61
Jun 2022	390.89
Jul 2022	671.04
Aug 2022	607.95
Sep 2022	633.79
Oct 2022	721.86
Nov 2022	612.12
Dec 2022	529.98
Jan 2023	1,097.90
Feb 2023	639.58
Mar 2023	635.73
Apr 2023	750.17
May 2023	707.44
Jun 2023	729.54
Jul 2023	995.58
Aug 2023	858.54
Sep 2023	939.06
Oct 2023	1,061.34
Nov 2023	820.76
Dec 2023	739.60
Jan 2024	1,392.89
Feb 2024	775.63
Mar 2024	767.11
Apr 2024	964.31
May 2024	807.92
Jun 2024	863.95
Jul 2024	1,146.34
Aug 2024	916.89
Sep 2024	1,020.96
Oct 2024	1,184.90
Nov 2024	931.99
Dec 2024	823.00
Jan 2025	1,544.89
Feb 2025	923.36
Mar 2025	840.08
Apr 2025	1,044.53
May 2025	970.06
Jun 2025	914.08
Jul 2025	1,205.17
Aug 2025	972.07
Sep 2025	1,050.09

3.1 Short-term resident returns

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Destination countries

The three leading destination countries residents returned from were:

Indonesia (159,420 trips)
New Zealand (113,870)
The UK (67,330).

3.2 Short-term resident returns, Australia - top 10 destination countries(a)
Country of Stay	Sep 2019	Sep 2023	Sep 2024	Sep 2025
Indonesia	133,240	131,860	155,230	159,420
New Zealand	110,950	104,030	108,740	113,870
UK	73,830	66,990	68,300	67,330
USA	95,180	63,460	67,100	58,610
Japan	30,860	38,030	50,070	58,090
China(b)	46,650	30,020	45,350	49,240
Italy	34,640	52,920	46,020	46,810
Thailand	42,660	39,300	46,060	41,950
Fiji	28,890	36,100	38,980	38,370
Vietnam	23,230	24,930	31,460	35,040

3.2 Short-term resident returns, Australia - top 10 destination countries(a)

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Top 10 destination countries for September 2025.
Excludes SARs and Taiwan.

State or territory of residence

All travellers are asked their intended address in Australia upon arrival. For September 2025:

The highest number of resident returns from short-term trips was observed for New South Wales (324,780)
The Northern Territory recorded the fewest (6,790).

3.3 Short-term resident returns, state or territory of residence - September 2025

This map presents the number of short-term resident returns in Australia in September 2025, by their state of intended residence.

3.4 Short-term resident returns, state or territory of residence
State or territory of residence	Sep 2019 (no.)	Sep 2023 (no.)	Sep 2024 (no.)	Sep 2025 (no.)	Sep 2024 to Sep 2025 change (%)
NSW	318,840	295,260	305,990	324,780	6.1
Vic.	292,550	286,720	286,750	301,590	5.2
Qld	176,460	172,750	212,140	202,960	-4.3
SA	47,780	40,320	46,670	48,650	4.2
WA	120,110	112,440	134,690	136,490	1.3
Tas.	11,120	9,670	9,750	11,540	18.5
NT	8,000	5,210	6,080	6,790	11.7
ACT	17,760	16,500	18,760	17,160	-8.5
Australia(a)	992,820	939,060	1,020,960	1,050,090	2.9

Includes Other Territories.

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Notes

The ABS identified a data quality issue with OAD source data which affected the state or territory of residence and state or territory of stay data. As a result, Overseas Arrivals and Departures data for November 2024 was revised and released in the December 2024 publication. For further information see Methodology page, in the History of changes section for the year 2024.
Additional provisional data is available under the Data downloads for State of clearance (Table 13), Country of citizenship (Table 14), and Visa group (Tables 15 and 16). No further breakdowns of provisional data are available, other than those which appear in this release.
The ABS identified a data quality issue with OAD processing which affected the state of clearance and visa grouping data. As a result, Overseas Arrivals and Departures data from September 2007 to August 2015 was revised and released in the March 2023 publication. A further revision to data from July 2007 to June 2017 was released in the April 2023 publication. For further information see Methodology page, in the History of changes section for the year 2007.
Due to improvements made to the quality of the imputations used to estimate duration of stay, OAD data from January to March 2022 has been revised and released in the April 2022 issue. These imputations use historical data and have been impacted by changed travel behaviour during the COVID-19 travel restrictions period. For further information see Methodology page in the History of changes section for the year 2022.
The ABS identified a data quality issue with the source data which affected the state and territory of stay/residence data. As a result, Overseas Arrivals and Departures data from July 2021 to February 2022 was revised and released in the March 2022 issue. For further information see Methodology page in the History of changes section for the year 2022.
For all Short-term Visitor Arrivals (STVA) and Short-term Resident Returns (STRR) series, the trend estimates have been suspended from February 2020 and the seasonally adjusted estimates have been suspended from April 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international travel. For more information, see the Seasonally adjusted and trend estimates section under 'Processing the data' in the Methodology page associated with this release.
The quality of the imputation used to estimate duration of stay for some resident departures was impacted by changed travel behaviour during COVID-19 travel restrictions. The proportional split between short-term resident departures and long-term resident departures was impacted from April 2020 to December 2021. Where possible, instead of departure volumes, we recommend clients use short-term resident returns and long-term resident returns for greater accuracy. For more information on how this variable is imputed, please refer to the Imputations and derivations section of the Methodology page.
Occasionally situations occur that necessitate breaks being applied to the trend series. For an overview of the breaks currently included in the trend series, refer to the Seasonally adjusted and trend estimates section in the Methodology.
For further information about the data, including updates or changes, see the Methodology page.

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Table 1: Total movement, arrivals - category of movement
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Table 3: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - selected countries of residence: trend
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Table 4: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - selected countries of residence: seasonally adjusted
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Table 6: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - intended length of stay and main reason for journey: original
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Table 7: Short-term movement, residents returning - selected destinations: trend
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Annual analysis articles

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2.3 Short-term visitor arrivals, state or territory of stay - September 2025

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3.3 Short-term resident returns, state or territory of residence - September 2025

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Table 1: Total movement, arrivals - category of movement

Table 2: Total movement, departures - category of movement

Table 3: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - selected countries of residence: trend

Table 4: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - selected countries of residence: seasonally adjusted

Table 5: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - selected countries of residence: original

Table 6: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - intended length of stay and main reason for journey: original

Table 7: Short-term movement, residents returning - selected destinations: trend

Table 8: Short-term movement, residents returning - selected destinations: seasonally adjusted

Table 9: Short-term movement, residents returning - selected destinations: original

Table 10: Short-term movements, residents returning - length of stay and main reason for journey: original

Table 11: Short-term movement, visitors arriving - state of intended stay: original

Table 12: Short-term movement, residents returning - state of residence: original

Table 13: Total arrivals and total departures - state of residence/stay and state of clearance

Table 14: Total arrivals and total departures - country of citizenship

Table 15: Total arrivals - state of residence/stay by visa group

Table 16: Total departures - state of residence/stay by visa group