However, young Maori are likely to be unemployed during their teenage years, which may mean that improvements in the income distribution of Maori may be hard to see in the medium term. While young Maori have a one in three chance of being unemployed they are growing as a share of the total young workforce. Maori are now more likely to be self-employed. They are also concentrated in industries most at risk from the global economy or from technological change. Auckland is a city where job and population growth are becoming dominated by Maori and Pacific communities.
Pacific peoples are a growing voting force.
They represent a large share of the growth in consumer markets and consumer-oriented education and health services and, by 2050, they will be one of the largest consumer groups in Auckland.