In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, New Zealand’s population growth dialed back with the biggest city of Auckland recording a decrease unexpectedly, the country’s insights office Stats NZ said on Friday.
New Zealand saw easing back population growth in all districts, population assessments and projections director Hamish Slack said in an assertion. Coronavirus global travel limitations kept on controling population increments from worldwide relocation in the June long term, Slack said.
Broadly, the population growth rate dropped from 2.2 percent in the June long term to 0.6 percent in the June long term, the most minimal it has been since the June long term, Xinhua news office cited Stats NZ as saying.
The population diminished in the Auckland, West Coast, and Southland areas, and different districts experienced lower growth, Slack said, including contrast, all areas had population growth in the June long term.
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While the population decline in the Auckland area was only 1,300 or 0.1 percent in 2021, this was as yet a huge change, he said, adding the Auckland area has arrived at the midpoint of population growth of 1.8 percent a year over the past 20 years, higher than the public normal growth of 1.4 percent a year.
Auckland’s population is temporarily assessed as 1.72 million on June 31, 2021, insights show. The quickest developing areas in the June long term were Northland with a growth pace of 1.9 percent, and Tasman and Bay of Plenty, both developing at 1.5 percent.
The population growth in these three areas was fundamentally determined by individuals moving there from different spaces of the nation, Slack said.
