Asian New Zealanders
Asian New Zealanders are New Zealanders of Asian ancestry (including naturalised New Zealanders who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). At the 2013 census, 471,708 New Zealanders declared that they had an Asian ancestral background. This represents about 12% of all responses.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 718,995 people (2018) 15.3% of New Zealand's population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Waikato | |
| Languages | |
| New Zealand English · Asian languages | |
| Religion | |
| 34.0% No religion 26.8% Christianity 16.8% Hinduism 6.2% Buddhism 5.7% Sikhism 5.7% Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Asian Americans · Asian Australians · Asian Britons · Asian Canadians · Asian people |
The first Asians in New Zealand were Chinese workers who migrated to New Zealand to work in the gold mines in the 1860s. The modern period of Asian immigration began in the 1970s when New Zealand relaxed its restrictive policies to attract migrants from Asia.
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