Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of giving extremely misleading figures about the number of Australians stranded overseas.

On September 18th, Morrison promised that all 26,800 Australians would be brought home for Christmas, but the department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that only 14,000 have returned to Aussie shores.

Morrison claimed in his press conference yesterday that he brought 35,000 Australians home instead of saying that his government missed the target.

"So we are well on the track to deal with the scale of demand that we had at that time," he said. "In fact we have exceeded it, in many respects, with the number of people that have come back."

Deputy Labor Leader Kristina Keneally slammed the "misrepresentation" as a "new low".

"I think it's important that everyone understands how misleading Scott Morrison was today in his press conference when he spoke about Australians stranded overseas. We need a plan to bring these stranded Aussies home," she wrote on Twitter.

In a statement overnight, she said that his figure of 35,000 Aussies being brought home includes people who never registered with DFAT.

She said highflyers making overseas trips like Tony Abbott would be included in the figures presented by Mr Morrison as being "stranded" Aussies.

"It's hard to comprehend just how low Scott Morrison will go to mislead Australians about his failure to deliver on his promises, but he has set a new low," she said.