Tatauranga umanga Māori – Statistics on Māori businesses: March 2025 quarter – information release
8 July 2025
Tatauranga umanga Māori – Statistics on Māori businesses: March 2025 quarter presents information on one subset of Māori businesses that contribute to our country’s economy. This release includes data on Māori authorities and related businesses. It does not cover all Māori businesses in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Māori authorities are defined as businesses that receive, manage, and/or administer assets held in common ownership by iwi and Māori. Māori authorities are largely identified through their tax codes as registered with Inland Revenue. Any business within a Māori authority ownership group is also included for the purposes of Tatauranga umanga Māori.
Key facts
In the March 2025 quarter, around 1,450 Māori authorities and related businesses were in the Tatauranga umanga Māori population.
All figures are actual values and are not adjusted for seasonal effects.
In the March 2025 quarter compared with the March 2024 quarter:
- the total value of sales by Māori authorities was $1,078 million, down $0.6 million (0.1 percent)
- the total value of purchases by Māori authorities was $742 million, down $18.9 million (2.5 percent)
- the total number of filled jobs for Māori authorities was 11,870, down 170 jobs (1.4 percent)
- the total value of earnings by employees of Māori authorities was $212 million, down $8.7 million (4.0 percent)
- Māori authorities exported $219 million worth of goods, up $10 million (4.9 percent).
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