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.

You can get immigration data using our Migration Data Explorer or by downloading the statistics files.

Migration Data Explorer

The Migration Data Explorer is a tool that lets you explore immigration data. It replaced the annual Migration Trends report.

Migration Data Explorer — Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

To protect personal information, we use random rounding to base 3. This is best practice from Stats NZ. It means figures can be different to previously published data.

Data confidentiality principles and methods report — Stats NZ

Statistics files for download

Note

You can get detailed statistics using the Migration Data Explorer.

Migration Data Explorer — Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Applications recorded as declined

Most of the applications we declined did not meet the requirements of the visa.

We also declined some applications for administrative reasons, including:

the applicant withdrew the application
we replaced the application with a new application
we made a data error and an application record was created by mistake.

In the 2022/23 financial year, we assessed about 3,200 applications for parent and grandparent visitor visas under the general visitor criteria. This is because of 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 were declined between 1 July 2022 and 31 January 2023 because they did not meet the requirements of the visa.