Ethnic groups in New Zealand

Population pyramid taken from the 2013 census
Population	4,793,700
Density	17.9/km2 (46.4/sq mi)
Growth rate	2.1%
Birth rate	12.65 per 1000 pop.
Death rate	6.64 per 1000 pop.
Life expectancy
• male	79.9 years
• female	83.4 years
Fertility rate	1.87 births per woman
Infant mortality rate	3.58 per 1000 live births
Net migration rate	14.72 per 1000 pop.
0–14 years	19.6%
15–64 years	65.5%
65 and over	14.9%
Total	0.97 males/female
Under 15	1.05 males/female
15–64 years	0.97 males/female
65 and over	0.87 males/female
Nationality	New Zealander
Major ethnic	European 74.0%
Minor ethnic	Māori 14.9% Asian 11.8% Pacific peoples 7.4%
Official	English 96.1% Māori 3.7% New Zealand Sign Language 0.5%

The demographics of New Zealand encompass the gender, ethnic, religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 4.8 million people living in New Zealand. New Zealanders, informally known as "Kiwis", predominantly live in urban areas on the North Island. The five largest cities are Auckland (with one-third of the country's population), Christchurch (in the South Island, the largest island of the New Zealand archipelago), Wellington, Hamilton and Tauranga. Few New Zealanders live on New Zealand's smaller islands. Waiheke Island (near Auckland) is easily the most populated smaller island with 9,520 residents, while Great Barrier Island, the Chatham and Pitt Islands and Stewart Island each have populations below 1,000. New Zealand is part of a realm and most people born in the realm's external territories of Tokelau, the Ross Dependency, the Cook Islands and Niue are entitled to New Zealand passports. In 2006, more people who identified themselves with these islands lived in New Zealand than on the Islands themselves.

The majority of New Zealand's population is of European descent (74 percent identify as "New Zealand European"), with the indigenous Māori being the largest minority (14.9 percent), followed by Asians (11.8 percent) and non-Māori Pacific Islanders (7.4 percent). This is reflected in immigration, with most new migrants coming from Britain and Ireland, although the numbers from Asia are increasing. The largest Māori tribe (iwi) is Ngāpuhi with 125,601 people or 18.8 percent of the Māori population. Auckland is the most ethnically diverse region in New Zealand with 59.3 percent identifying as Europeans, 23.1 percent as Asian, 10.7 percent as Māori and 14.6 percent as Pacific Islanders. The ethnicity of the population aged under 18 years is considerably more diverse than the population aged 65 years or older. Recent increases in interracial marriages have resulted in more people identifying with more than one ethnic group.