The table demonstrates information relating to the population of New Zealand from 2011 to 2012 in several age groups; under 15 years old to above 65 years old. In general, all ages in New zealand shows an upward trend throughout the year. However, there are several age groups that experienced a slight decline.
To begin with, New Zealand had a peak of +0.6% population throughout the given period, by a total of 4.381.269 population in 2011, and rose to 4.410.284 in 2012. In contrast, people at the age of 40-46 increased significantly by +0.6%. The same trajectory also shows in the people above 65 years old, whereas they were having a massive increase by +4.0%, from 573.946 to 596.903.
On the other hand, People under the age of 15 to 39 years old decreased slightly by -0,2%. whereas children younger than 15 were only 898.160 in population and declined by 896.364, surpassing that of the 15-39 age groups that reached 1.574.102 in 2012.