American New Zealanders
ethnic group
American New Zealanders are New Zealand citizens who are of American descent from American-born citizens from the United States. American New Zealanders constitute a small minority of New Zealand's population.
Demography
In the 2013 census in New Zealand, when asked to indicate their ethnic identity, 12,342 New Zealanders described themselves as "American" and 21,462 stated they were born in the United States. This marked a sizeable increase, in proportional terms, from the 8,451 US-born New Zealanders in 1991. In 2013, there were also 636 persons born in American Samoa and living in New Zealand, and small numbers of persons born in other US territories.
Since the 2013 census, the number United States born people in New Zealand has steadily increased, with 31,779 people stating that they were born in the United States in the 2023 census; an increase of 10,317 from the 2013 census. This growth rate, as an annual percentage average between 2013 and 2023 (4.0%), far exceeded the average annual total population growth rate recorded over the same 10 year period (1.6%).
American ethnicity
There were 16,245 people identifying as being part of the American ethnic group at the 2018 New Zealand census, making up 0.35% of New Zealand's population. This is an increase of 3,903 people (31.6%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 5,439 people (50.3%) since the 2006 census. Some of the increase between the 2013 and 2018 census was due to Statistics New Zealand adding ethnicity data from other sources (previous censuses, administrative data, and imputation) to the 2018 census data to reduce the number of non-responses.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4744584. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013, 1991, 2023 and 2018.
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