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In 2018, over half (50.7 percent) of New Zealand's overseas-born population lived in the Auckland Region, including 70 percent of the country's Pacific Island-born population, 61.5 percent of its Asian-born population, and 52 percent of its Middle Eastern and African- born population. [51]
In the most recent New Zealand census, in 2018, 70.2 per cent of the population identified as European and 16.5 per cent as Māori. Other major pan-ethnic groups include Asians (15.1 per cent) and Pacific peoples (8.1 per cent). Middle Eastern, Latin American and African ethnicities constitute a small remainder (1.5 per cent) of the population.
The table shows the ethnic composition of New Zealand population at each census since the early twentieth century. Europeans are still the largest ethnic group in New Zealand. Their proportion of the total New Zealand population has been decreasing gradually since the 1916 Census. [20] The 2006 Census counted 2,609,592 European New Zealanders.
Maoris as a percentage of the total population of New Zealand in 2006 New Zealand enumerated people by ethnicity from 1858 to the present day. [ 192 ] People were enumerated by tribal affiliation in 1901 and again from 1991 to the present day.
At the 2023 census, 861,573 New Zealanders identifying as being part of the Asian ethnic group, making up 17.3% of New Zealand's population. [3] The first Asians in New Zealand were Chinese workers who migrated to New Zealand to work in the gold mines in the 1860s. The modern period of Asian immigration began in the 1970s when New Zealand ...
Total population; c. 5.8 million Regions with significant populations New Zealand c. 5,340,000 Australia 640,770 [1] United Kingdom 58,286 [2] United States 22,872 [2] Canada
The majority of Pasifika were born in New Zealand: 66.4% at the 2018 census, up from 62.3% at the 2013 census and 60.0% at the 2006 census. [ 12 ] In terms of population distribution as at the 2023 census, 275,079 (62.1%) Pasifika New Zealanders lived in the Auckland region, 126,678 (28.6%) live in the North Island outside the Auckland region ...
The 2018 New Zealand census, which took place on Tuesday 6 March 2018, was the thirty-fourth national census in New Zealand. [2] The population of New Zealand was counted as 4,699,755 – an increase of 457,707 (10.79%) over the 2013 census .