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New Zealand

5,324,700

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+34.7K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+38.0%from 3.86M
Life expectancy82.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.57births per woman · 2024
Urban population84.0%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificHigh income

A country at every age

How New Zealand is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1417.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+17.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate11.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+3.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+17.4Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could New Zealand look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 5.76M in 2050—10.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.21M
  2. 20505.76M
  3. 21005.81M
Median age in 205042.7years
Births in 205056.14Kduring the year
Deaths in 205058.7Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.37M
  2. 19702.81M
  3. 19803.11M
  4. 19903.33M
  5. 20003.86M
  6. 20104.35M
  7. 20205.07M
  8. 20255.32M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/19/2026

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