The given bar chart illustrates the nationality of migrants to Australia coming from 6 different areas involved between 1987 and 1997.
Overall, it is readily apparent that there was a significant drop in the percentage of Rest of Asia’s people moving to Australia. Meanwhile, the figure for North East Asia jumped sharply throughout the period.
In 1987, the migrant wave of Middle East Africa and North East Asia both accounted for exactly 15%. After that, these statistics witnessed a gradual rise to 20% for the former and roughly 24% for the latter. Besides, migrants from Oceania occupied 17% in 1987, then also increasing to approximately 22% by 1997.
A closer look into the graph reveals that the majority of migrants in Australia were from European nations, at the beginning such a figure stood at the peak with 32% before decreasing to 27% in 1997. Similarly, the percentage of Rest of Asia along with North/ South American (22% and a half respectively) suffered from a downward trend, although this was enormous in Rest of Asia but also pretty small in North/ South American by 9% and 1% in that order.