Statistics

We gather statistics on how many people leave New Zealand, and on those who come, the reason for their visits, and if they come as residents and how well they settle in New Zealand.

Research and statistics

Getting immigration statistics

You can get our statistics by:

downloading files linked below
using the Migration Data Explorer.

Migration Data Explorer

The Migration Data Explorer is a tool that lets you drill into immigration data, and also protects individual privacy.

We meet our legal obligation to protect personal information by randomly rounding totals in the tool base three. This is best practice from StatsNZ. It does mean figures can be different to our previously published data.

The Migration Data Explorer replaced the annual Migration Trends report, which is no longer published.

Migration Data Explorer | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Statistics files for download

You can download detailed statistics as CSV files using the Migration Data Explorer.

Note

The majority of applications recorded as declined were declined because they did not meet the requirements of the visa.

The figures for declined applications also include applications recorded as declined for administrative reasons, including where an applicant has withdrawn their visa application, where Immigration New Zealand has replaced the application with a new one or where a data entry error by Immigration New Zealand resulted in application record being created by mistake.

About 3,200 applications for parent and grandparent visitor visas were assessed under general visitor criteria in the 2022/23 financial year after issues with processing the original applications. These applications are recorded as declined under the parent and grandparent visa but were processed as general visitor visas. Only about 70 applications for parent and grandparent visitor visas have been declined between 1 July 2022 and 31 January 2023 because they did not meet the requirements of the visa.