The table provides information about the population of New Zealand from 2011 to 2012 by age category.
Overall, every age group excluding the elderly group had the only small change. As for the 15-39 aged amateurs group, it had the most contribution in the number of individuals during the entire period. Notably, while the number of amateurs decreased over the period, the number of old people rose.
Regarding under 15 and 15-39 year old group, both had the small drop in the population in 2012. Starting from the 898.160 and 1.577.256 individuals in 2011 respectively, both had slight decline by 0.2%.
Looking at the figure for all ages, 40-64 and 65+ year old population, all three had grown over the year. While the percentage of change for all ages and 40-64 age group were +0.6%, the category of 65+ olded people had shown unusual pattern, increasing from 573.946 by +4% in 2012.
