Country of residence | January 2020 | January 2023 |
Australia | 143364 | 111545 |
United States | 42591 | 40091 |
United Kingdom | 35267 | 26597 |
Germany | 13624 | 8557 |
Canada | 10292 | 8328 |
China | 50316 | 4949 |
Korea | 14159 | 4875 |
Overseas visitors are people living overseas, and who are in New Zealand for less than 12 months. This includes both New Zealand and non-New Zealand citizens.
New Zealand-resident arrivals up
In January 2023, 234,900 New Zealand-residents returned from a short-term (less than 12 months) trip overseas. This is the highest since January 2020, just before the COVID-19-related border restrictions.
The January 2023 number is 72 percent of the 326,300 New Zealand-resident arrivals in January 2020.
Of all New Zealand-resident arrivals, 36 percent returned from Australia followed by India, the United States, and Fiji with 7 percent each.
Country of main destination | January 2020 | January 2023 |
Australia | 122528 | 74275 |
India | 16503 | 15227 |
United States | 20020 | 14408 |
Fiji | 13340 | 14116 |
United Kingdom | 15173 | 12783 |
China | 19846 | 2648 |
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