{"id":245625,"date":"2026-01-22T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245625\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:51:10","slug":"net-population-growth-from-migration-remains-below-1000-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245625\/","title":{"rendered":"Net population growth from migration remains below 1000 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Population growth from migration remains weak, with a net gain of just 938 people in November, according to Statistics NZ.<\/p>\n<p>Net migration appears to be settling at just under 1000 people a month, with a net gain of 10,681 in the 12 months to November last year.<\/p>\n<p>That was down 63% from a net gain of 28,975 in the 12 months to November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>To put that into a longer term perspective, over the 12 months to November between 2015 to 2019,\u00a0 before pandemic-affected figures, the annual net migration gain ranged from 49,237 to 67,725 a year.<\/p>\n<p>The number of New Zealand citizens leaving the country long-term continues to be a major driver of the low levels of migration-driven population growth.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2025, 4878 NZ citizens left long-term, almost unchanged from the 4889 who left in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>That was partially balanced by the 1981 NZ citizens who arrived back last November after an extended stay overseas, giving a net loss of 2898 NZ citizens for the month.<\/p>\n<p>In the 12 months to November last year, there was a net loss of 40,760 NZ citizens.<\/p>\n<p>That was offset by a net gain of 51,441 non-NZ citizens in the 12 months to November, which gave the overall net gain of 10,681 for the year.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest source countries for migrant arrivals (by citizenship) were returning NZ citizens 27,042, India 17,278, China 14,926, Philippines 10,491, Sri Lanka 5722, Australia 4675, UK 4528 and USA 3829.<\/p>\n<p>Over the year to November lats year, 31,834 people arrived in NZ on work visas and 26,048 on student visas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MigrationGraphic.png\" class=\"drupal-media\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Population growth from migration remains weak, with a net gain of just 938 people in November, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-245625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}