Fact · Workforce
Dental hygienists total: New Zealand, 2025
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
New Zealand had 435 dental hygienists in 2025, according to Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25. Basis: registered.
Comparability B Confidence high
Cite this
Dental Council (Te Kaunihera Tiaki Niho). (2026). Dental hygienists total: New Zealand, as of 2025-03-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/nz/dental-hygienists-total/2025/
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Record
- Value
- 435 persons
- Unit
- persons
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- high
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- registered
- Scope
- registered
- Comparability
- Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
Dental hygienists 435 433
Locator: p.24, table "Registered practitioners by profession*", row "Dental hygienists", column 2024/25
Local definition
Practitioners registered in the dental hygiene profession
Source
Dental Council (Te Kaunihera Tiaki Niho): Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25 (register and APC data at 31 March 2025). Registry entry: nz-dcnz-annual-report-2025.
Notes
Excludes oral health therapists (1,066 registered at 31 Mar 2025), who are a separate profession in NZ but whose scope includes dental hygiene, and dental therapists (290). Hygiene + OHT = 1,501. 80% of hygienists hold an APC. 2023/24: 433.
Metric definition
Dental hygienists (headcount); some markets register oral health therapists instead (see notes) All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 435 persons | registered | Comparability B | Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25 (register and APC data at 31 March 2025) |
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