NZ's fertility rate had dropped to an all-time low (like many other developed countries) in 2018. The 2019 data is now available and the birth rate has increased slightly to 1.75.
Predictably most of the increase is to mothers 30 and over. The increase in births by ethnicity is charted below. There were almost twice as many more Asian mothers than all the others combined. (1,203 versus 678)
Important note from data: "Each birth is included in every ethnic group specified. For this reason, some births are counted more than once and responses sum to more than the total number of births."
Birth data does not use a hierarchical system whereby Maori gets prioritised when there are multiple ethnicities. Here I have used 'mothers' as opposed to 'children' because mothers state fewer ethnicities than they do for their child, understandably. Mothers sum to 68,007 whereas children sum to 77,505. Total births for the year on the other hand is given as 59,637.
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And your point is? A replacement of whitey by people with "chinky sounding names"?
It's just a factual post relaying data I find interesting. If I wanted to make a point, you can be sure you wouldn't have missed it.
Is there an actual definition of "Asian" or is it self reported?
Pretty big continent from middle east to Japan and all parts in between.
Self-reported and classified by statisticians I'd guess. It will no doubt cover the geographical area you describe, including India. There's a link to the tables. There is no data for 'other' ethnic group so mothers with ethnicities beyond European, Maori, Pacific and Asian are not included. In 2017 there were 1,549 'other' mothers according to MOH data.But their maternity reports are not as up-to-date as Stats NZ.
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