The chart provides information related to how many skilled workers in different jobs emigrated to Australia between 2009 and 2012.
Overall, there was a gradual increase in the number of accountants, chefs and computer programmers, while a reverse trend was seen in the figure for software engineers. Notably, the number of accountants who migrated to Australia had consistently the highest figures throughout the period, whereas the lowest figures in computer programmers.
Only 20 thousand accountants migrated to Australia in 2009, with a subsequent rise to reach a peak at 28 thousand workers and a final decrease to end the point at 21 thousand accountants. In addition, the figure for cooks accounted for 17 thousand workers in the first year, after which it started to drop slightly just by 1 thousand three years later despite a small rise in the first two years.
The number of software engineers emigrating to Australia in 2009 started at 19 thousand workers, before growing steadily by 1 thousand in the first two years. Followed by a negligible decline to 17 thousand engineers in 2012. Conversely, the figure for computer programmers experienced a slow fluctuation from 2 thousand workers to 5 thousand workers over the given period.