WELLINGTON, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Annual net migration in New Zealand was provisionally estimated at 50,200 (± 800) in the year that ended December 2018 compared with 52,600 in the previous year, New Zealand statistics department Stats NZ said on Monday.

Over the past four calendar years, 224,000 more people came to New Zealand than departed. That's equivalent to the population of Wellington city, or about 150 more people every day.

More than half the net gain in migration came from Asia, especially India and China, with provisional net gains of 47,800 and 38,600 respectively over four years. In the same four-year period there was a net gain of 11,200 migrants from the United Kingdom.

"New Zealand is seeing a sustained period of high net migration relative to its population," said Stats NZ population indicators manager Tehseen Islam.

"This has helped boost the total population, which has grown by an average of 2 percent per year for the past four years. People are both arriving and leaving in large numbers each year, which reflects large numbers of migrants arriving on work and student visas," said Tehseen Islam.

However, every year, more New Zealand citizens leave the country than arrive back as migrants. But the net outflow over the past four years (22,600) was much lower than the previous four years 2011-14 (97,500). Enditem

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