There are currently 978,246 Maori in New Zealand, constituting around 19 percent of the country’s population of 5.3 million.

A controversy is brewing in New Zealand, as thousands of ... of policies that aimed to empower Maori, who make up around 20% of the 5.3 million population but have higher levels of deprivation ...

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

April 10 (UPI) --New Zealand's ... on a mythology" that Maori have special privileges while data shows Maori in New Zealand are doing worse than the rest of the population in income, life ...

Passing the torch New Zealand’s Maori make up about 17 per cent of the population or about 900,000 people. Maori citizens are much more likely than other New Zealanders to be unemployed ...