Who is arriving, and who is leaving?
Figures from May 2025 onwards are provisional estimates and will be revised.
Arrivals and departures
People arriving or leaving for 12 months or more. Each point is the total for the 12 months to that month.
Net gain or loss
The latest months are estimates
Net gain each month
By age
People arriving and leaving in the year to Aug 2026, by age
Who arrived, by citizenship and visa
Where they lived before
18,632 arrivals didn't state a country of last residence.
About these numbers
Who counts: people crossing the border who stay in (or out of) New Zealand for at least 12 of the next 16 months. Stats NZ can only confirm that after 16 months, so recent months are modelled estimates.
Likely range: the estimate plus or minus 1.96 standard errors, as published by Stats NZ for each provisional month.
Arrivals by visa are for people who aren't New Zealand citizens, by the visa they arrived on. Departures aren't published by visa or citizenship in these files.
Source: Stats NZ International migration, International migration, August 2026.