The data below is in a format known as tab-delimited values. You can open this file with any spreadsheet application and the data will be distributed into the appropriate rows and columns. 

	Māori
1986	24449
2001	72970
2006	92909
2016	142106

Sources: Jeremy Lowe, The Australian Maori population: Nga Maori ki Ahitereria: a demographic analysis based on 1986 Australian and New Zealand census data. Wellington: New Zealand Planning Council, 1990; R. Bedford and I. Pool, ‘Flirting with Zelinsky in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a Maori mobility transition.’ In Population mobility and indigenous peoples in Australasia and North America, edited by John Taylor and Martin Bell. London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 44–74; Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016 Census

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