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There were 887,493 people identifying as being part of the Māori ethnic group at the 2023 New Zealand census, making up 17.8% of New Zealand's population. [114] This is an increase of 111,657 people (14.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 288,891 people (48.3%) since the 2006 census.
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.
An umbrella group comprising at least 80 Maori tribes has sent an open letter to King Charles III demanding that he intervene in New Zealand politics and ensure the government honours its ...
The culture of New Zealand is a synthesis of indigenous Māori, colonial British, and other cultural influences.The country's earliest inhabitants brought with them customs and language from Polynesia, and during the centuries of isolation, developed their own Māori and Moriori cultures.
Members of Parliament in New Zealand representing the Maori people, labeled as Te Pāti Māori, interrupted a reading of the ‘Treaty Principles Bill’ on Thursday, November 14th.
To-day New Zealand is not only manufacturing many kinds of munitions for her own defence but is making a valuable contribution to the defence of the other areas in the Pacific..." New Zealand, with a population of 1.7 million, including 99,000 Māori, was highly mobilised during the war. [162]
While most New Zealanders live in New Zealand, there is also a significant diaspora abroad, estimated as of 2001 at over 460,000 or 14 percent of the international total of New Zealand-born. Of these, 360,000, over three-quarters of the New Zealand-born population residing outside of New Zealand, live in Australia.
[13] [14] A rise in anti-Māori sentiment, particularly against Māori women, was reported in the lead up to the 2023 New Zealand general election. [15] [16] There are also marginal extremist groups, such as the defunct New Zealand National Front and active Action Zealandia, who are white nationalist in character and deny Māori are indigenous ...