A lot people seem not to know that refugees and asylum seekers are not the same thing. Their status is not the same. The supporting statistics are not the same (to learn the difference, watch the video above). So we did some number crunching of our own -- from a range of sources -- to see if we could get to the core of this issue via pure maths.
Additional research by Jess Mendes, animated by Josh Reed.
Full story at: hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/8-bit-immigration