.jpg) Indian women in Grey Lynn, Auckland, in 1962 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 239,193
117,348 (born in India)
| |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Auckland | 154,824 |
| Wellington | 22,227 |
| Waikato | 17,295 |
| Canterbury | 14,763 |
| Bay of Plenty | 10,335 |
| Manawatū-Whanganui region | 4,374 |
| Languages | |
| New Zealand English • Hindi • Fijian Hindi • Gujarati • Malayalam • Odia • Bengali • Punjabi • Marathi • Tamil • Telugu • Kannada | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Hinduism Minority: Sikhism • Christianity • Islam • Zoroastrianism • Jainism • Buddhism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
Indian New Zealanders are people of Indian origin or descent who live in New Zealand. The term includes Indians born in New Zealand, as well as immigrants from India, Fiji, other regions of Asia, parts of Africa such as South Africa and East Africa, and from other parts of the world. The term Indian New Zealander applies to any New Zealander with one or both parents of Indian heritage. Although sometimes the Indo-Kiwi definition has been expanded to people with mixed racial parentage with one Indian parent or grandparent, this can be controversial as it generally tends to remove the ethnic heritage or identity of the foreign parent or grandparent, which may be seen as insensitive to those with mixed parentage, who tend to value both their Indian and non-Indian parents and grandparents.
Indian New Zealanders are the fastest growing New Zealand ethnic group, and the second largest group of New Zealand Asians after Chinese.[2] The largest number of Indians living in New Zealand are from Fiji. The fifth largest language in New Zealand is Hindi, shown in the 2018 census. According to ENZ.org (a New Zealand Government affiliate), since 2011, 18,000 Indians have migrated to New Zealand.[3] In 2011, the Indian population in New Zealand was 155,000, so there are 174,000 Indians in New Zealand (2014) due to the additional immigration of 18,000.[3] Most early New Zealand Indians were of Punjabi or Gujarati descent.[4][5]
- ^ "2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights | Stats NZ". Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ "Indians in New Zealand form fastest growing ethnic group".
- ^ a b "New Zealand Migrants – How Many and From Where?". www.enz.org.
- ^ "Indians in New Zealand - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". Archived from the original on 10 April 2008.
- ^ Nachowitz, Todd (2015). Towards a framework of deep diversity: Identity and invisibility in the Indian diaspora in New Zealand (Thesis). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato.
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