Asians are fastest growing ethnic group in NZ
NZPA | Friday, 20 April 2007
Asians are New Zealand's fastest growing ethnic group, census figures show.
Statistics New Zealand yesterday released a Culture and Identity report analysing data from last year's census.
If found Europeans remained New Zealand's largest ethnic group, comprising 67.6 per cent of the population.
Maori were second on 14.6 per cent and Asian third on 9.2 per cent. Pacific Island peoples made up 6.9 per cent.
Among the groups, Asian people were the fastest growing ethnicity, with their numbers rising 50 per cent from 238,000 to 354,000 between 2001 and 2006.
Pacific Island peoples had the second largest growth at 14.7 per cent.
Both groups far outstripped New Zealand's overall 7.8 per cent population growth in the same period.
Stats NZ puts the current population at 4,181,060.
Among Asians, the biggest group remained Chinese with 148,000 in New Zealand, but Indians, whose numbers grew by 68 per cent between 2001 and 2006 were closing in on 105,000.
Two-thirds of the Asian population lived in Auckland.
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