International migration: July 2025 – information release
10 September 2025
International migration statistics give the latest outcomes-based measure of migration, which includes estimates of migrants entering or leaving New Zealand.
Key facts
Annual migration
Provisional estimates for the July 2025 year compared with the July 2024 year were:
- migrant arrivals: 140,500 (± 1,000), down 20 percent
- migrant departures: 127,400 (± 1,100), up 14 percent
- annual net migration: gain of 13,100 (± 1,400), compared with a net gain of 63,600 (± 200).
Annual migrant arrivals peaked at 234,800 in the year ended October 2023.
Annual migrant departures provisionally peaked at 127,500 in the year ended June 2025.
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