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Tokelauan-born people and people of Tokelauan ethnicity, 1951–2018

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This graph shows that the major period of Tokelauan migration to New Zealand happened in the 1960s. In subsequent decades population growth in the Tokelauan community was due to fertility rather than migration.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Sources: New Zealand census, 1951–2018; Tokelau census, 1951–2011

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Carl Walrond, Tokelauans – Immigration, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/2874/tokelauan-born-people-and-people-of-tokelauan-ethnicity-1951-2018 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2015.

Comments

simon
30 October 2013
This graph helped me with an assessment.