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.
September 2019 trend estimates for short-term trips:
- Overseas visitor arrivals to Australia increased 0.5% since the previous month to 805,500 trips
- Australian resident returns from overseas increased 0.7% since the previous month to 960,600 trips.
1.1 Visitor arrivals - short-term trips
![Graph: Visitor arrivals - short-term trips](/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/e95e591739b9e7ffca2584cd0013d5ea/Body/0.660!OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=gif)
1.2 Resident returns - short-term trips
![Graph: Resident returns - short-term trips](/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/e95e591739b9e7ffca2584cd0013d5ea/Body/0.2A56!OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=gif)
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1.3 Monthly and annual change
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Sep '19 | Aug '19 to Sep '19 | Sep '18 to Sep '19 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | '000 | % change | % change |
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Visitor arrivals — short-term trips | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Trend | 805.5 | 0.5 | 3.9 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Seasonally adjusted | 793.8 | -2.7 | .. |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Original | 695.0 | .. | .. |
Resident returns — short-term trips | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Trend | 960.6 | 0.7 | 3.4 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Seasonally adjusted | 948.5 | 0.0 | .. |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Original | 992.8 | .. | .. |
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