Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 30, 2024 5:09:58 GMT 12
NEARLY ONE MILLION IDENTIFY AS BEING OF MĀORI DESCENT – CENSUS 2023
New Zealand’s population is more ethnically diverse with Māori and Asian ethnic groups having the largest increases in the past five years, according to the first release of data from the 2023 Census.
The census data shows a 12.5% increase in the number of people who identify as being of Māori descent. Nearly one in five or 978,246 of the population said they were of Māori descent.
The number of people who identify as Māori is 887,493 or 17.8% of the population, up 14.4% since 2018.....