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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 ...
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 March 2025, the total population has risen to an 5,468,550 (estimated by extrapolation). [22]
The current regions and most of their councils came into being through a local government reform in 1989 that took place under the Local Government Act 1974. The regional councils replaced the more than 700 ad hoc bodies that had been formed in the preceding century – roads boards, catchment boards, drainage boards, pest control boards ...
Southland region covers 31,218.95 km 2 (12,053.70 sq mi). [1] It has an estimated population of 106,100 as of June 2024, 2.0% of New Zealand's population. [2] It is the country's second-most sparsely populated region (after the West Coast), with 3.40 people per square kilometre (8.80 per square mile).
A map showing population density in the Canterbury region at the 2023 census Canterbury ( Māori : Waitaha ) is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island . The region covers an area of 44,503.88 square kilometres (17,183.04 sq mi), making it the largest region in the country by area.
Northland is New Zealand's least urbanised region, with 50% of the population of 204,800 living in urban areas. Whangārei is the largest urban area of Northland, with a population of 56,800 (June 2024). [1] The region's population is largely concentrated along the east coast, due to the west coast being more rugged and less suitable for ...
Otago Region covers 31,186.16 km 2 (12,041.04 sq mi). [20] The population is 257,200 as of June 2024, [1] [1] which is approximately 4.8 percent of New Zealand's total population of 5.3 million. The population density is 8.2 people per km 2. About 41.5 percent of the population resides in the Dunedin urban area—the region's main city and the ...
It has an estimated population of 58,800 as of June 2024. [4] Before the 2023 census, the urban area had a larger boundary, covering 48.04 km 2 (18.55 sq mi). [33] Using that boundary, The Rotorua urban area had a usual resident population of 54,204 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 5,289 people (10.8%) since the 2013 census. There ...