People from abroad in New Zealand, and New Zealand's people abroad

Where they come from

Industries

Where the names come from (estimate)

Where the names in New Zealand's company register come from, estimated by a name-origin model and adjusted to New Zealand's own mix. These are expected counts, not people with a documented move, and no individual is labelled by them.

Based on 43,547 names whose origin the model can place; 1,256,783 names common to many countries are counted but not assigned.

Read with care. In New Zealand, about 73% of the estimated name origins point to other countries. Where a population was built by immigration, much of that is simply what its names' ancestry is: it is not a count of migrants. The estimate is also adjusted toward the nationalities New Zealand's register records, and registers that record nationality mainly for foreigners pull it further abroad.

New Zealand's people abroad

Abroad, 289,700 people from New Zealand are documented in 214 other countries.

New Zealand's company register lists 2,372,097 officer rows, 42,419 with a stated nationality (self-stamp rate 0.64; above 0.98 the field is ignored as it only repeats the register's own country).

Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".

Aggregate statistics from official company registers, ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata, compiled by compatriots.net · data build v3_20261030. No individual is named on this page. See methodology & privacy.