1093 



TABLE 3.— OVERSEAS-BORN PROFESSIONAL WORKERS RESIDING 



AND OCCUPATION 



IN AUSTRALIA IN 1%6, BY BIRTHPLACE 



India 



Birthplace 



Indo- 

 nesia 



Malay- 

 sia 



Philip- 

 pines 



Singa- 

 pore 



PaKi- 

 stan 



Ceylon China 



Hong 

 Kong 



Architects, engineers, and surveyors.. 201 

 Chemists, physicists, geologists, and 



natural scientists. _. 87 



Biologists, veterinarians, agronomists, 



and scientists 27 



Medical practitioners and dentists 85 



Nurses. _ ._ ..- 16 



Other professional medical workers. .. 9 



Teachers _ 272 



All professionals 681 



All occupations .- 6,669 



Percent professionals to total 10. 2 



Female professionals 596 



Female all occupations 2, 818 



Percent professional females to total.. 21.2 



97 

 36 



173 

 47 



10 



53 

 13 



18 

 18 



40 

 18 



213 

 51 



94 

 22 



Source- Gregory Henderson, "Emigration of Highly Skilled Manpow/er From the Developing Countries," United Nations 

 Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)(Nevi/ York, 1970), p. 23. 



That immigration to Australia from the LDCs has increased in 

 recent years is shown by the statistics in Table 4. 



Thus, Henderson generalizes, new arrivals from the LDCs to Aus- 

 tralia were about three times the number in 1968 as during the decade 

 ending in 1968. Since 1947, permanent residents of Asian descent have 

 more than quadrupled from 25,000 to 101,387 at the time of the 1966 

 census, while the total Australian population increased 62.5 percent.^^^ 



In the light of these data, Henderson concludes that professional 

 emigration from the LDCs to Australia, mostly from Asia, remains 

 "fairly modest." Yet the increase since its beginning in the late 1950's 

 has been considerable. The demand for services is there, and the rate of 

 professional immigration among Asians is high — in some cases, the 

 highest among all nations whose nationals immigrate to Australia. 

 Thus, Mr. Hendersop concludes, "it seems likely that the present trend 

 will increase as Australia's 12 million population climbs, partly 

 through swelling immigration, toward the 20 million that economists 

 say are needed' for proper expansion and development of that 

 continent." ^'^ 



TABLE 4.— IMMIGRATION FROM THE LDCS TO AUSTRALIA, 1959-68 



Total 



settler 



arrivals, 



January 1959 



to December 



1968 



Ceylon 



India 



Malaysia 



Pakistan 



Singapore.-. 



Burmese 



Chinese 



Filipino 



Indonesian.. 

 Turkish 



Total. 



1, 



149 

 002 

 850 

 238 

 468 

 007 

 451 

 614 

 139 

 679 



Average 



yearly 



arrivals, 



1959-68 



415 



500 



85 



24 



47 



101 



145 



61 



14 



168 



Settler 



arrivals, 



calendar 



year 1968 



838 



2,100 



230 



87 

 148 

 272 

 480 

 127 



41 

 641 



11,497 



1,560 



4,944 



Source- Gregory Henderson, "Em^rzXhn of Highly Skilled Manpower From the Developing Countries," United Nations 

 Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) (New York, 1970), p. 24. 



