New Zealanders - wikipedia New Zealanders New Zealanders Meeting of European and Māori New Zealanders, 1863 Total population c. 5.5 million Regions with significant populations New Zealand c. 4,790,000 Australia 640,770 United Kingdom 58,286 United States 22,872 Canada 9,475 Netherlands 4,260 United Arab Emirates 4,000 Japan 3,146 Hong Kong 3,000 Germany 2,631 Ireland 2,195 France 890 Languages English Other minority languages Religion Christianity ( Anglican, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism ) Other minority religions New Zealanders, colloquially known as Kiwis, are people associated with New Zealand, sharing a common history, culture, and language ( New Zealand English ). People of various ethnicities and national origins are citizens of New Zealand, governed by its nationality law. Originally composed solely of the indigenous Māori, the ethnic makeup of the population has been dominated since the 19th century by New Zealanders of European descent, mainly of Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as German, Dutch, Scandinavian and South Slavic. Today, the ethnic makeup of the New Zealand population is undergoing a process of change, with new waves of immigration, higher birth rates and increasing interracial marriage resulting in the New Zealand population of Māori, Asian, Pacific Islander and multiracial descent growing at a higher rate than those of solely European descent, with such groups projected to make up a larger proportion of the population in the future. New Zealand has an estimated resident population of around 4,793,700 ( as of June 2017 ). Over one million New Zealanders recorded in the 2013 New Zealand census were born overseas. While most New Zealanders are resident in New Zealand, there is also a significant diaspora, estimated at around 750,000. Of these, around 640,800 lived in Australia ( a June 2013 estimate ), which was equivalent to 7001140000000000000 ♠ 14 % of the domestic population of New Zealand. Other communities of New Zealanders abroad are predominantly concentrated in other English - speaking countries, specifically the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, with smaller numbers located elsewhere. Despite its multiethnic composition, the culture held in common by most New Zealanders can also be referred to as mainstream New Zealand culture, a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of British and other Northern European colonists, settlers, and immigrants. It also includes influences of Māori culture. Large - scale immigration in the 20th and 21st centuries from Asia, such as Chinese and Indians, introduced a variety of elements. Contents 1 Ethnic origins 1.1 European 1.1. 1 Post-Second World War European immigration 1.2 Māori 1.3 Asian 1.4 Pacific Islanders 1.5 Middle Eastern, Latin American and African 1.6 Others 2 Race and ethnic relations 3 Culture 3.1 National personifications 3.2 Language 3.3 Religion 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Ethnic origins Main article : List of ethnic origins of New Zealanders See also : New Zealand census 1961 New Zealand census Ethnic group Population % of New Zealand population European 2,216,886 91.8 91.8 Māori 167,086 6.9 6.9 Others 31,012 1.3 1.3 Total 2,414,984 100 100 2013 New Zealand census Ethnic group Population % of New Zealand population European 2,969,391 74.0 74 Māori 598,602 14.9 14.9 Asian 471,708 11.8 11.8 Pacific Islander 295,941 7.4 7.4 ME / LA / African 46,956 1.2 1.2 Other 67,752 1.7 1.7 Total 4,242,048... 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. Those of full or part - Māori ancestry comprise 14.9 % of New Zealanders. The residual `` others '' ethnic group consists largely of Asians and Pacific Islanders. Crowd at an Anzac Day Dawn Service at Wellington Cenotaph, 2011 European Main articles : European New Zealanders and Pākehā New Zealand school students of European descent Most European New Zealanders are of British and Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Germans, Poles ( historically noted as German due to Partitions of Poland ), French, Dutch, Scandinavian and South Slavs. In the 1961 census, over 90 % self - identified as people of European descent. The Māori language loanword Pākehā has been used to refer to European New Zealanders, although others reject this appellation. The word Pākehā today is increasingly used to refer to all non-Polynesian New Zealanders. The first Europeans known to have reached New Zealand were Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman and his crew in 1642. Māori killed several of the crew and no more Europeans went to New Zealand until British explorer James Cook 's voyage of 1768 -- 71. Cook reached New Zealand in 1769 and mapped almost the entire coastline. Following Cook, New Zealand was visited by numerous European and North American whaling, sealing and trading ships. They traded European food and goods, especially metal tools and weapons, for Māori timber, food, artefacts and water. On occasion, Europeans and Māori traded goods for sex. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed between Māori and the British Becoming aware of the lawless nature of European settlement and of increasing French interest in the territory, the British government appointed James Busby as British Resident to New Zealand in 1832. Busby failed to bring law and order to European settlement, but did oversee the introduction of the first national flag on 20 March 1834, after an unregistered New Zealand ship was seized in Australia. The nebulous United Tribes of New Zealand later, in October 1835, sent the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand to King William IV of the United Kingdom, asking him for protection. Ongoing unrest and the legal standing of the Declaration of Independence prompted the Colonial Office to send Captain William Hobson to New Zealand to claim sovereignty for the British Crown and negotiate a treaty with the Māori. The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed in the Bay of Islands on 6 February 1840. The drafting was done hastily and confusion and disagreement continue to surround the translation. The Treaty however remains regarded as New Zealand 's foundation as a nation and is revered by Māori as a guarantee of their rights. In response to New Zealand Company attempts to establish a separate colony in Wellington, and French claims in Akaroa, Hobson, now Lieutenant - Governor, declared British sovereignty over all of New Zealand on 21 May 1840. The two proclamations published in the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay Of Islands Gazette issue of 19 June 1840 `` assert ( s ) on the grounds of Discovery, the Sovereign Rights of Her Majesty over the Southern Islands of New Zealand, commonly called ' The Middle Island ' ( South Island ) and ' Stewart 's Island ' ( Stewart Island / Rakiura ) ; and the Island, commonly called ' The Northern Island ', having been ceded Sovereignty to Her Majesty. '' The second proclamation expanded on how sovereignty over the `` Northern Island '' had been ceded under the treaty signed that February. Following the formalising of sovereignty, the organised and structured flow of migrants from Great Britain and Ireland began, and by 1860 more than 100,000 British and Irish settlers lived throughout New Zealand. The Otago Association actively recruited settlers from Scotland, creating a definite Scottish influence in that region, while the Canterbury Association recruited settlers from the south of England, creating a definite English influence over that region. By 1870 the non-Māori population reached over 250,000. Other settlers came from Germany, Scandinavia, and other parts of Europe as well as from China and the Indian subcontinent, but British and Irish settlers made up the vast majority, and did so for the next 150 years. Between 1881 and the 1920s, the New Zealand Parliament passed legislation that intended to limit Asiatic migration to New Zealand, and prevented Asians from naturalising. In particular, the New Zealand government levied a poll tax on Chinese immigrants up until the 1930s, when Japan went to war with China. New Zealand finally abolished the poll tax in 1944. An influx of Jewish refugees from central Europe came in the 1930s. Many of the persons of Polish origin in New Zealand arrived as orphans from Eastern Poland via Siberia and Iran in 1944 during World War II. Post-second World War European immigration New Zealand explorer and mountaineer Edmund Hillary, a much loved national fugure With the agencies of the United Nations dealing with humanitarian efforts following the Second World War, New Zealand accepted about 5,000 refugees and displaced persons from Europe, and more than 1,100 Hungarians between 1956 and 1959 ( see Refugee migration into New Zealand ). The post-WWII immigration included more persons from Greece, Italy, Poland and the former Yugoslavia. New Zealand limited immigration to those who would meet a labour shortage in New Zealand. To encourage those to come, the Government introduced free and assisted passages in 1947, a schema expanded by the First National Government in 1950. However, when it became clear that not enough skilled migrants would come from the British Isles alone, recruitment began in Northern European countries. New Zealand signed a bilateral agreement for skilled migrants with the Netherlands, and a large number of Dutch immigrants arrived in New Zealand. Others came in the 1950s from Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Austria to meet needs in specialised occupations. By the 1960s, the policy of excluding people based on nationality yielded a population overwhelmingly European in origin. By the mid-1960s, a desire for cheap unskilled labour led to ethnic diversification. Māori Main article : Māori people Four Māori women, c. 1870 The Māori people are most likely descended from people who emigrated from Taiwan to Melanesia and then travelled east through to the Society Islands. After a pause of 70 to 265 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand in about AD 1250 -- 1300, making New Zealand one of the most recently settled major landmasses. Some researchers have suggested an earlier wave of arrivals dating to as early as AD 50 -- 150 ; these people then either died out or left the islands. Over the following centuries the Polynesian settlers developed into a distinct culture now known as Māori. The population was divided into iwi ( tribes ) and hapū ( subtribes ) which would cooperate, compete and sometimes fight with each other. At some point a group of Māori migrated to the Chatham Islands where they developed their distinct Moriori culture. Due to New Zealand 's geographic isolation, 500 years passed before the next phase of settlement, the arrival of Europeans. Only then did the indigenous inhabitants need to distinguish themselves from the new arrivals, using the term `` Māori '' which means `` normal '' or `` ordinary ''. Ihaia Te Kirikumara, a Māori rangatira In the 1860s, disputes over questionable land purchases led to the Māori Wars, which resulted in large tracts of tribal land being confiscated by the colonial government. Settlements such as Parihaka in Taranaki have become almost legendary because of injustices done there. With the loss of much of their land, Māori went into a period of decline, and in the late 19th century it was believed that the Māori population would cease to exist as a separate race and would be assimilated into the European population. However, the predicted decline did not occur, and numbers recovered. Despite a high degree of intermingling between the Māori and European populations, Māori were able to retain their cultural identity and in the 1960s and 1970s Māoridom underwent a cultural revival. Contemporary ethnographic presentation of Māori children The Māori population has seen stability in the 21st century. In the 2013 Census, 598,602 people identified as being part of the Māori ethnic group, accounting for 14.9 % of the New Zealand population, while 668,724 people ( 17.5 % ) claimed Māori descent. 278,199 people identified as of sole Māori ethnicity, while 291,015 identified as of both European and Māori ethnicity ( with or without a third ethnicity ), due to a high rate of intermarriage between the two cultures. Under the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1974, a Māori is defined as `` a person of the Māori race of New Zealand ; and includes any descendant of such a Māori. '' According to the 2006 census, the largest iwi by population is Ngāpuhi ( 125,601 ), followed by Ngāti Porou ( 71,049 ), Ngāi Tahu ( 54,819 ) and Waikato ( 40,083 ). However, over 110,000 people of Māori descent in the 2013 census could not identify their iwi. Outside of New Zealand, a large Māori population exists in Australia, estimated at 155,000 in 2011. The Māori Party has suggested a special seat should be created in the New Zealand parliament representing Māori in Australia. Smaller communities also exist in the United Kingdom ( approx. 8,000 ), the United States ( up to 3,500 ) and Canada ( approx. 1,000 ). The most common region this group lived in was Auckland Region ( 23.9 percent or 142,770 people ). They are the second - largest ethnic group in New Zealand, after European New Zealanders. In addition, more than 120,000 Māori live in Australia. The Māori language ( known as Te Reo Māori ) is still spoken to some extent by about a fifth of all Māori, representing 3 % of the total population. Many New Zealanders regularly use Māori words and expressions, such as `` kia ora '', while speaking English. Māori are active in all spheres of New Zealand culture and society, with independent representation in areas such as media, politics and sport. Asian Main article : Asian New Zealanders Lion dancers perform at Auckland 's Lantern Festival In the 2013 Census, Asian ancestries total was 11.8 % of the population, Chinese remained the largest Asian ethnic group in 2013, with 171,411 people while Indian was the second - largest Asian ethnic group in 2013, with 155,178 with Filipino a distant third with 40,350 people. The Asian component actually predates the Pacific component. There had been people of Asian ethnicity living in New Zealand from the early days of European settlement, albeit in very small numbers. During the period of gold rushes later in the nineteenth century the number of Chinese temporary settlers both from China and from Australia and America increased sharply. This was an interlude in many respects, though there was a small population which remained and settled permanently. However, a century later in the 1980s and 1990s the number of people of Asian ethnicities grew rapidly, and they are likely to exceed the Pacific population within the next few years. Pacific Islanders Cook Islands dancers at Auckland 's Pasifika Festival In the 1950s and 1960s, New Zealand encouraged migrants from the South Pacific. The country had a large demand for unskilled labour in the manufacturing sector. As long as this demand continued, migrants were encouraged by the government to come from the South Pacific, and many overstayed. However, when the boom times stopped, some blamed the migrants for the economic downturn affecting the country, and many of those people suffered dawn raids from 1974. Middle Eastern, Latin American and African Main articles : Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African New Zealanders This component was 1.2 % of the total population in the 2013 census. The Latin American ethnic group almost doubled in size between the 2006 and 2013 censuses, increasing from 6,654 people to 13,182. A more recent component comprises refugees and other settlers from Africa and the Middle East, most recently from Somalia. While there had been previous settlers from the Middle East, such as Syrians, people from Equatorial Africa have been very few in the past. Middle Eastern ethnic group -- 20,406 African ethnic group -- 13,464 Others In 2013, 67,752 people or 1.7 % self - identified with one or more ethnicities other than European, Māori, Pacific, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African. The vast majority of these people, 65,973 people, identified only as ' New Zealander '. Race and ethnic relations See also : Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements Prime Minister Norman Kirk walks hand in hand with a Māori boy, Waitangi Day 1973 Successive government policies on the relationship between Māori and non-Māori people have worsened race relations. After 1840, many issues to do with sovereignty and land ownership remained unresolved and, for a long time, invisible while Māori lived in rural communities. When Māori and Pākehā began living in closer proximity, the belief that the country had `` the best race relations in the world '' was tested. The first Race Relations Concilitator was appointed in 1971 to help combat racial discrimination among New Zealanders. Agitation regarding Treaty of Waitangi violations intensified in the 1970s. The Waitangi Tribunal was set up in 1975 to consider alleged breaches, and in 1984 was empowered to look back to 1840. Culture Further information : Culture of New Zealand New Zealand culture is essentially a Western culture influenced by the unique environment and geographic isolation of the islands, and the cultural input of the Māori and the various waves of multi-ethnic migration which followed the British colonisation of New Zealand. British settlers brought a legal, political, and economic system that has flourished, along with the British system of agriculture that has transformed the landscape. The British brought the Protestant work ethic -- the industrious newcomers astonished Māori people. In return, settlers noted the athletic ability, musicality, and courage of the Māori. However, British paternalism soon brought an extensive welfare system that created a large Māori underclass. Illustration of Anzac troops after the fighting at Gallipoli during the First World War The development of a New Zealand identity and national character, separate from the British colonial identity, is most often linked with the period surrounding the First World War, which gave rise to the concept of the Anzac spirit. However, cultural links between New Zealand and Great Britain are maintained by a common language, sustained immigration from the UK, and the fact that many young New Zealanders spend time in Britain on `` overseas experience '', known as `` OE ''. New Zealanders also identify closely with Australians, as a result of the two nations ' shared historical, cultural and geographic characteristics. A Māori war dance, called a haka The New Zealand government promotes Māori culture by supporting Māori - language schools, by ensuring the language is visible in government departments and literature, by insisting on traditional Māori welcomes ( pōwhiri ) at government functions and state school award programs, and by having Māori run the welfare services targeted at their people. New Zealanders are distinctive for their twangy dialect of English and propensity to travel long distances, and are quickly associated with the All Blacks rugby team and the haka. A tradition of resourcefulness came from the pioneering backgrounds of both European and Māori colonists. National personifications See also : National symbols of New Zealand A statue of Zealandia as a Second Boer War memorial in Palmerston. Zealandia is a national personification of New Zealand and New Zealanders. In her stereotypical form, Zealandia appears as a woman of European descent who is dressed in flowing robes ( or gown ). She is similar in dress and appearance to Britannia ( the female personification of Britain ), who is said to be the mother of Zealandia. As a rhetorical evocation of a New Zealand national identity, Zealandia appeared on postage stamps, posters, cartoons, war memorials, and New Zealand government publications most commonly during the first half of the 20th century. The personification was a commonly used symbol of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, which was held in Wellington in 1939 and 1940. Two large Zealandia statues serve as war memorials that honour the casualties of the Second Boer War : one is in Waimate and the other is in Palmerston. Some smaller statues exist in museums and in private hands. The female figure who appears on the left side of the national coat of arms has been identified as Zealandia ( in a `` cut down nightie '' ). Language Main article : Languages of New Zealand English ( New Zealand English ) is the dominant language spoken by New Zealanders, and a de facto official language of New Zealand. According to the 2013 New Zealand census, 96.1 % of New Zealanders spoke English. The country 's de jure official languages are Māori ( Te Reo ) and New Zealand Sign Language ( NZSL ). Other languages are also used by ethnic communities. Religion Main article : Religion in New Zealand John Dew is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and a cardinal Just under half of the population at the 2013 census declared an affiliation to Christianity. However, regular church attendance is probably closer to 15 %. Before European colonisation the religion of the indigenous Māori population was animistic, but the subsequent efforts of missionaries such as Samuel Marsden resulted in most Māori converting to Christianity. Religious affiliation has been collected in the New Zealand census since 1851. One of the many complications in interpreting religious affiliation data in New Zealand is the large proportion who object to answering the question, roughly 173,000 in 2013. Most reporting of percentages is based on the total number of responses, rather than the total population. In the early 20th century New Zealand census data indicates that the vast majority of New Zealanders affiliated with Christianity. The total percentages in the 1921 non-Māori census were 45 % Anglicans, 19.9 % Presbyterians, 13.6 % Catholics, 9.5 % Methodists and 11.2 % Others. Statistics for Māori were only available from 1936, with 35.8 % Anglicans, 19.9 % Ratana, 13.9 % Catholics, 7.2 % Ringatu, 7.1 % Methodists, 6.5 % Latter Day Saints, 1.3 % Methodists and 8.3 % Others recorded at this census. 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Question: what is a citizen of new zealand called
Answer: New Zealanders, colloquially known as Kiwis