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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.
The demographics of New Zealand encompass the gender, ... the majority of New Zealand's population is of European descent ... more than half of Maori, or 53.5 per ...
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 above shows the broad ethnic composition of the New Zealand population at the 1961 census compared to that from the most recent data of the 2013 census. People of European descent constituted the majority of the 4.2 million people living in New Zealand, with 2,969,391 or 74.0% of the population in the 2013 New Zealand census. [25]
The population of New Zealand was counted as 4,699,755 – an increase of 457,707 (10.79%) over the 2013 census. [ 26 ] On 30 June 2023, the field collection phase of the 2023 census ended with an estimated 89–91% of the New Zealand population having participated.
Christchurch (/ ˈ k r aɪ s. tʃ ɜːr tʃ / ⓘ; Māori: Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. [a] Christchurch has an urban population of 415,100, and a metropolitan population of over half a million.
Southland Region had a population of 100,143 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 2,676 people (2.7%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 6,801 people (7.3%) since the 2013 census. There were 50,115 males, 49,704 females and 321 people of other genders in 41,070 dwellings.
The 2023 New Zealand census, which took place on 7 March 2023, [1] was the thirty-fifth national census in New Zealand.It implemented measures that aimed to increase the Census' effectiveness in response to the issues faced with the 2018 census, including supporting Māori to complete the census.