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Annual income by ethnicity, 2013

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These pie charts compare the distribution of incomes among those who identified themselves as Asian, European, Māori and Pacific peoples in the 2013 census. The proportion of Europeans who earned $50,000 or more was a third larger than the proportion of Māori or Asian people earning that much, and more than double the percentage of Pacific peoples.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Statistics New Zealand: 2013 Census

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David Pearson, Ethnic inequalities – Ethnicity and income, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/29601/annual-income-by-ethnicity-2013 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Pearson, published 24 February 2011.