A record 52,500 New Zealand citizens left the country in the year ending March 31, according to Stats NZ.
This figure surpasses the previous record of 44,400 citizen departures set more than a decade ago.
It is the first time the annual net migration loss of New Zealand citizens has exceeded 50,000, a Stats NZ spokesperson told legacy media.
Meanwhile, it appears that the number of incoming migrants has peaked. Provisional data from Stats NZ shows that arrivals peaked at 244,800 in the year ending December 2023, but dropped to 239,000 for the year ending March 2024.
The previous highest net migration loss of New Zealand citizens was 44,400 in the year to February 2012.
According to Stats NZ, the provisional net migration gain of 111,100 in the past year includes a net gain of 163,600 non-New Zealand citizens, which ‘offsets the net migration loss of 52,500 New Zealand citizens.’
In the year ending March 2024, citizens of India represented the largest group of migrant arrivals, with 49,800 arrivals. This was followed by 31,900 from the Philippines, 26,800 from China, and 25,800 New Zealand citizens returning.
Other significant groups by citizenship included individuals from Fiji, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the UK.
‘Country of citizenship refers to the nationality of the passport used for entry into or departure from New Zealand and does not necessarily indicate the previous or next country of residence,’ added Stats NZ.
For non-New Zealand citizens, the net migration gain of 163,600 in the year to March is a significant increase compared to the net migration gain of 105,000 in the year ending March 2023. This figure is also well above the pre-Covid average for March years, which stood at 47,600.
Comparing March this year to the same month in 2023, migrant arrivals decreased by 17 percent to 20,800, while departures surged by 98 percent to 16,300.
Annual migration by citizenship
The provisional net migration gain of 111,100 in the March 2024 year was made up of a net gain of 163,600 non-New Zealand citizens, which more than offset a net migration loss of 52,500 New Zealand citizens.
For migrant arrivals in the March 2024 year, citizens of India were the largest group, with 49,800 (± 600) arrivals. The next largest groups were citizens of:
- Philippines: 31,900 (± 300)
- China: 26,800 (± 600)
- New Zealand: 25,800 (± 600)
- Fiji: 10,700 (± 300)
- South Africa: 7,800 (± 100)
- Sri Lanka: 6,900 (± 100)
- United Kingdom: 6,600 (± 300).
For migrant departures in the March 2024 year, New Zealand citizens were the largest group, with 78,200 (± 1,600) departures. The next largest groups were citizens of:
- China: 8,100 (± 300)
- Australia: 5,000 (± 300)
- United Kingdom: 4,900 (± 100)
- India: 4,800 (± 200)
- United States: 3,100 (± 100).
Citizens of India, the Philippines, China, and Fiji drove net migration gains in the March 2024 year. Country of citizenship is the nationality of passport used to arrive in or depart from New Zealand and is not necessarily the country of previous or next residence.
For non-New Zealand citizens, the net migration gain of 163,600 in the March 2024 year compares with a net migration gain of 105,000 in the March 2023 year. It is also above the long-term average for March years (pre-COVID 2002–2019) of 47,600 a year.
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Our politicians hate us (and it shows).
Looks like we hate them back, leaving is really the ultimate rejection.
Yeah but wherever you go it’s just more of the same waiting for you over there.
Mass migration
Economic collapse
Censorship
Creeping communism
Might as well move to North Africa at this rate. Sunnier weather and it’s probably close to emptied out by now.
Finally, all the Labour voters are leaving.
We are considering leaving too. No one wants to live in a nation ruled by unaccountable tyranny. Hey but don’t worry, for all those people who are probably generational Kiwis, who built this country, who are now gone, maybe forever, we have more people arriving who have no tie to this nation whatsoever, in many instances and may well use it as a bridge to Australia. Guess that’s just how it goes in the banana republic of New Zealand.
This is replacement migration (a UN initiative)
Born in NZ or newly arrived transients? NZ has always been a back door to Oz.
Ah yep. Communism does that.
Unfortunately NZ is thoroughly infested with retarded indoctrinated woke communists.
Funny, pathetic, deeply sad and tragic obviously.
For decades there has been a slow dribble of real kiwis leaving this country. It used to be called the brain drain because the best had to leave. There was nowhere for them to go in NZ. John Clarke (Fred Dagg) told the truth about his departure to Australia in an interview. Then along came Jacinda Ardern who locked the whole country down and dictated mandates during which time many thousands of people became aware of just how easy it would be to turn this country into a prison. Many of them made the decision to get out of this place asap during 2021/22. Ardern was the creator of this huge rise in emigration. The people coming in don’t want to stay either. They all want to go to Australia.
This was once a prosperous little country with a distinct culture, good roads, interisland ferries that did not break down in the middle of Cook Strait, low unemployment and where everyone could own their own home. Now it is some sort of third world migrant waystation. This is completely due to the people who call themselves Progressives or Left Wing or Globalists but who are all really Communists following the Marxist playbook – Destroy it all. Then Build it Back the way we want it. Ha!
New Zealand First and to a lesser extent ACT are the only political parties fighting against the evil.