Overseas visitor arrivals and resident returns by country, monthly

The Overseas Arrivals and Departures statistics of the Australian Bureau of Statistics for short trips (less than one year): the number of visitors arriving in Australia, counted by country of residence, and of Australian residents returning from a short trip abroad, counted by country of stay (the country they come back from). One row per traveller category, country and month, from July 1975 (a few series start later). The countries are the ones the ABS reports on: 57 named countries and territories, an "other" group for the rest of each of nine world regions, the nine regional totals, a total for all countries and a "not stated" group. Rows of different levels overlap, so do not add them up across levels. A row counts border crossings (movements of travellers), not people: a traveller who arrives twice in a month is counted twice. The ABS rounds its figures to the nearest 10, so every value here is a multiple of 10 and the parts of a total need not add up to it. A month with no row means the ABS published no figure for that series and month (a few small groups have gaps), which is not the same as zero. The ABS fills in a missing country of residence or stay by imputation, and it samples short-term arrivals: it says their characteristics other than the total and citizenship are based on the sample. Original (not seasonally adjusted) series only. Permanent and long-term movements, departures and the ABS's other breakdowns are not in this dataset. The Data API is an ABS beta service whose data can trail the ABS website.