The table below illustrate population size of New Zealand base on age groups and percentage of change from 2011 to 2012.Overall, population of New Zealand experienced a modest increase of 0.6% rising from 4,381,269 in 2011 to 4,410,284 in 2012.
The age demographics reveals a varied trends. While the younger and middle year groups saw a slight decline, the older ages inclined in term of population. Under 15 and 15-39 age categories experienced decrease by 0.2 moving from 898,160 and 1,577,256 in 2011 to 896,364 and 1,574,102 in 2012. 40-64 age set depicted a surge by 0.6 from 1,331,907 in 2011 to 1,339,898 in 2012. Notably,above 65 year batch experienced a significant positive change of a whopping sum of 4% from 573,946 in 2011 to 596,903 in 2012 indicating a clear aging population.
In summary, New Zealand population saw a increase trend from 2011 to 2012 influenced by positively profound change by the elderly age groups that is 40-64 and above 65 while younger age set from under 15 and 15-39 slightly affected the increment of the country’s population.
