Dentists (total): New Zealand, 2025

Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated 2026-11-09 · Data as of 2025-03-31

New Zealand had 3,381 registered dentists in 2025, according to Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25. Basis: registered.

Comparability A Confidence high

Cite this

Dental Council (Te Kaunihera Tiaki Niho). (2026). Dentists (total): New Zealand, as of 2025-03-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/nz/dentists-total/2025/

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Record

Value: 3,381 persons
Unit: persons
As of: 2025-03-31
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Revision: 1
Confidence: high
Method: reported
Basis: registered
Scope: registered
Comparability: Comparability A A: same definition as the metric
Status: Latest record for this market and metric

Source quote

Dentists and dental specialists 3,381 3,349

Locator: p.24, table "Registered practitioners by profession*", row "Dentists and dental specialists", column 2024/25

Local definition

Practitioners registered in the dentistry profession (general dental practice and/or a specialist scope); counted once per 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

Registered headcount at 31 March 2025, not all practising (80% hold an APC). Practitioners registered in more than one profession are counted in each. 2023/24: 3,349. Registrations by scope (3,655) double-count multi-scope dentists.

Metric definition

Dentists registered or licensed to practise (headcount); definition per record notes All markets for this metric.

History

Current records on the same basis (registered). A dashed line crosses a documented series break. The table below lists every record.

Current records for Dentists (total), New Zealand, newest first
Year	Value	Basis	As of	Comparability	Source	Series break
2025	3,381 persons	registered	2025-03-31	Comparability A	Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25 (register and APC data at 31 March 2025)
2024	3,349 persons	registered	2024-03-31	Comparability A	Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25 (register and APC data at 31 March 2025)

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