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New Zealand population, 1951–2013

Over two prosperous decades, the 1950s and 1960s, New Zealand’s population increased by about one million. By the 2006 census the country’s population had topped 4 million.

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Source: New Zealand census, 1951–2001

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John Wilson, 'Society - The people of New Zealand', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/graph/2412/new-zealand-population-1951-2013 (accessed 29 March 2024)

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