Populations of New Zealand and Australia at the Millennium

A joint Special Issue of the Journal of Population Research and the New Zealand Population Review

Edited by Gordon A. Carmichael with A. Dharmalingam

Published September 2002
ISBN 0-9578572-1-7

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NEW ZEALAND POPULATION: THEN, NOW, HEREAFTER
Ian Pool, University of Waikato

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Abstract
The major issues of population and policy confronting New Zealand are resonant of those faced by other OECD countries. In public discourse some of these are more ‘manifest’, others more ‘latent’ (to use the terminology of functionalist sociology). There are, of course, purely local factors, including a demographic history that long paralleled Australia’s, but has diverged recently. Paradoxically, this divergence is occurring at a time when New Zealand is
being integrated more into a wider Australasian sociodemographic system than at any time in its history. This paper is not so much an empirical analysis of how and why New Zealand came to be where it is today and might be hereafter, but is more in the nature of an overview.

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