2019-20 Passport Facts

  • We issued 1,745,340 passports – that’s 7,009 each business day.
  • 70% of applicants used our online services.
  • 134,787 people paid to have their passport issued in 2 days plus delivery.
  • 14,614,941 Australians had a passport = 57% of the population.
  • End to end, the number of passports we printed would stretch from Byron Bay to Noosa Heads.
  • 31,073 passports were reported lost or stolen.
  • 5,915 emergency travel documents were issued.
  • 73 applications not processed on suspicion of dishonesty or fraud.
  • 45 passports cancelled or refused on national security or law enforcement grounds.

Top 5 countries for lost and stolen Australian passports

  Lost passports Stolen passports
1 Australia Australia
2 United States United States
3 United Kingdom Italy
4 Japan France
5 New Zealand Spain