Key statistics
Overseas arrivals and departures statistics are international travel movements of persons arriving in, and departing from Australia with a focus on short term trips (less than 1 year). It is the number of international border crossings rather than the number of people.
July 2019 trend estimates for short-term trips:
- Overseas visitor arrivals to Australia increased 0.5% since the previous month to 797,900 trips
- Australian resident returns from overseas increased 0.3% since the previous month to 948,800 trips.
1.1 Visitor arrivals - short-term trips
![Visitor arrivals - short-term trips](/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/516cf27d29b7aa6bca258493001e8851/Body/0.65C!OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=gif)
1.2 Resident returns - short-term trips
![Resident returns - short-term trips](/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/516cf27d29b7aa6bca258493001e8851/Body/0.294E!OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=gif)
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1.3 Monthly and annual change
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Jul '19 | Jun '19 to Jul '19 | Jul '18 to Jul '19 |
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Visitor arrivals — short-term trips | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Trend | 797.9 | 0.5 | 3.3 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Seasonally adjusted | 795.1 | 0.4 | .. |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Original | 790.4 | .. | .. |
Resident returns — short-term trips | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Trend | 948.8 | 0.3 | 2.4 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Seasonally adjusted | 933.5 | -1.7 | .. |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Original | 1122.6 | .. | .. |
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