page_title: New Zealanders
section_title: Ethnic origins
hierarchical_section_title: New Zealanders / Ethnic origins
caption_attribution_description: ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Wellington Cenotaph 20110425_WN_S1015650_0007.jpg Crown Copyright 2011, NZ Defence Force – Some Rights Reserved.
context_page_description: New Zealanders, colloquially known as Kiwis, are people associated with New Zealand, sharing a common history, culture, and language. 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 Greek, Italian, 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 4,917,000. Over one million New Zealanders recorded in the 2013 New Zealand census were born overseas.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Crowd at an Anzac Day Dawn Service at Wellington Cenotaph, 2011
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