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Social upheaval and epidemics of introduced disease took a devastating toll on the Māori population, which fell dramatically, but began to recover by the beginning of the 20th century. The March 2023 New Zealand census gives the number of people of Māori descent as 978,246 (19.6% of the total population), an increase of 12.5% since 2018. [15 ...
By the late 19th century a widespread belief existed amongst both Pākehā and Māori that the Māori population would cease to exist as a separate race or culture, and become assimilated into the European population. [79] In 1840, New Zealand had a Māori population of about 50,000 to 70,000 and only about 2,000 Europeans.
Edward Tregear's The Aryan Maori (1885) suggested that Aryans from India migrated to southeast Asia and thence to the islands of the Pacific, including New Zealand. [ 32 ] Two works published in 1915, Percy Smith 's book The Lore of the Whare-wānanga: Part II and Elsdon Best 's journal article "Maori and Maruiwi" in the Transactions of the New ...
Maori tribes call on King Charles to ensure the New Zealand ... up 20 per cent of the population. ... ties with the monarchy due to its colonial history, some Maori leaders prefer to maintain the ...
Change in population by region in New Zealand based on the 2006–2013 censuses. The 2018 census enumerated a resident population of 4,699,755 – a 10.8 percent increase over the population recorded in the 2013 census. [4] As of December 2024, the total population has risen to an 5,438,990 (estimated by extrapolation). [22]
The human history of New Zealand can be dated back to between 1320 and 1350 CE, ... New Zealand, with a population of 1.7 million, including 99,000 Māori, ...
The 2001 Australian census found that the Māori population in New Zealand numbered 101,100. The 2001 census also revealed that 35.5% of the Australian Māori population lived in New South Wales, 29.7% in Queensland (including 19,000 in Brisbane), 14% in Victoria, and 6% in other territories.
The Māori population has seen stability in the 21st century. In the 2013 Census, 598,602 people identified as being part of the Māori ethnic group, accounting for 14.9% [24] of the New Zealand population, while 668,724 people (17.5%) claimed Māori descent.