.jpg) Indian women in Grey Lynn, Auckland, in 1962 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 292,092
142,920 (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 or informally known as Kiwi Indians 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 largest group of New Zealand Asians.[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]
- ^ "2023 Census Results Reflect Aotearoa New Zealand's Diversity". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ "Indian population leapfrogs Chinese to become third-largest ethnicity in New Zealand". RNZ. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ a b "New Zealand Migrants – How Many and From Where?". www.enz.org. 4 June 2013.
- ^ "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.