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Story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health

Māori population changes

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Click on the key at the top of the graph for a close-up view of the period 1840–1901; click on the key again to restore the full graph.

While the history of the Māori population shows overall growth, from European contact to 1900 it dropped by nearly a half.

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Source: Ian Pool, Te iwi Māori: a New Zealand population, past, present and projected. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1991; Statistics New Zealand

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Raeburn Lange, Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health – Health devastated, 1769 to 1901, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/27240/maori-population-changes (accessed 8 June 2026).

Story by Raeburn Lange, published 28 April 2011, updated 4 April 2018.