Te Āhua o ngā Tapuhi i Aotearoa The State of Nursing in Aotearoa

Nō hea ā tātou tapuhi Where our nurses come from

Data sources

• Nursing Council of New Zealand – Quarterly Data Report (December 2025), Table 4: Source country of IQN registrations

Five quarters of registration data. Country labels match the Council's own categorisation including aggregated regional buckets (Middle Eastern Countries, Pacific Countries, Other Countries).

Exploring the global origins of internationally qualified nurses who join our workforce.

Ko wai mātou Who we are

Data sources

• Nursing Council of New Zealand – Quarterly Data Report (December 2025), Tables 1, 5, 6, 7

Each dot represents approximately 100 nurses. Counts allocated proportionally to share of total APC holders with rounding to integers.

The composition of our nursing workforce by scope, qualification origin, and demographics.

Te ara whakauru The path in

Understanding the pathways through which nurses enter and progress within the profession.

Ki hea ā tātou tapuhi Where our nurses go

Data sources

• Nursing Council of New Zealand – International nurse migration: implications for the New Zealand nursing workforce (August 2025), Figure 4 and narrative

Quarterly totals derive from the migration report's published trend. Per-destination breakdowns are illustrative estimates derived from the report's finding that Australia is the dominant destination via the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act.

Tracking the outflow of nurses from Aotearoa to international destinations.

Te wā kei mua The wave ahead

He aha mēnā…? What if…?

Data sources

• All of the above

Sensitivity model with four user-controlled levers (domestic intake, IQN inflow, IQN retention, retirement age). At default slider positions the model returns the central projection from Section 6. Illustrative; real workforce planning would incorporate retention curves, regional distribution, attrition by scope, and economic conditions.

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