Indian New Zealanders
Total population | |
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155,178 3.7% of the population of New Zealand (2013)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Indian people by region | |
Auckland | 105,900 |
Wellington | 15,000 |
Waikato | 9,900 |
Bay of Plenty | 6,200 |
Canterbury | 6,100 |
Manawatu Wanganui | 2,900 |
Hawke's Bay | 2,100 |
Languages | |
Standard Hindi • Fijian Hindi • Malayalam • Gujarati • Telugu • Punjabi • Marathi • Tamil • New Zealand English | |
Religion | |
Hinduism • Sikhism • Islam • Christianity • Zoroastrianism • Jainism • Buddhism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Indian New Zealanders or Indo-Kiwis are New Zealanders of Indian origin or descent, living in New Zealand. Although the term "Indian" is more of a nationality, rather than ethnicity given the vast racial diversity within the populations of India, it generally denotes people with subcontinental heritage. The term includes Indians born in New Zealand, immigrants from India, Indian Fijians, Indians born in Africa such as Indian South Africans and Indians in East Africa or any New Zealander with one or both parents of Indian heritage. Although sometimes times 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 termed as insensitive to those with mixed parentage, who tend to value both their Indian and non-Indian parents and grandparents.
Most early New Zealand Indians were of Punjabi or Gujarati descent.[2] Indian New Zealanders are the fastest growing Kiwi ethnic group, and the second largest group of New Zealand Asians.[3]
The largest number of Indians living in New Zealand are from Fiji. The fourth largest language in New Zealand is Fiji Hindi, shown in the 2013 census. According to ENZ.org (a New Zealand Government affiliate), since 2011 18,000 Indians have migrated to New Zealand.[4] In 2011, the Indian population in New Zealand was 155000, so there are 174,000 Indians in New Zealand (2014) due to the additional immigration of 18,000.[4] For the year ending in May 2015, New Zealand witnessed a record high of 12,100 immigrants from India.
Demographics
Over two-thirds (68.5 percent) of Indian New Zealanders live in the Auckland Region, with 25.2 percent living elsewhere in the North Island and 6.3 percent in the South Island. 93.3 percent live in a main urban area (i.e. population 30,000 or more).[5]
According to the 2013 census, 26.6 percent of Indian New Zealanders were born in New Zealand, the majority of whom were aged under 15. Of those born overseas, 55.6 percent were born in India, 67.6 percent had been living in New Zealand for at least five years, and 12.9 percent had been living in New Zealand for at least 20 years.[5]
At the 2013 census, 72.0 percent of Indian New Zealanders aged 15 and over were in the labour force, of which 8.3 percent were unemployed. The large employment industries of Indians were retail trade (16.3 percent), health care and social assistance (11.7 percent), and accommodation and food services (9.7 percent).[5]
Religion
Religion[5] | % of Indian population in New Zealand |
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53.6% | |
23.5% | |
10.8% | |
No religion | 6.0% |
Object to answering | 1.6% |
Notable individuals
Business
- Sir Owen Glenn, businessman and philanthropist
Entertainment
- Aaradhna Patel, R&B artist
- Shailesh Prajapati, New Zealand actor, best known for his role as Ernie in Power Rangers MegaForce
- Shirley Setia, Indo-Kiwi singer
- Jacob Rajan, playwright and actor, whose most notable work is Krishnan's Dairy
- Madeleine Sami, New Zealand actor of Irish and Fiji Indian heritage, best known for her role as Tania in Sione's Wedding
Media
- Rohit Kumar Happy,[6] editor of Bharat-Darshan, Hindi literary magazine
- Vanita Prasad, chief reporter, Western Leader
- Rebecca Singh, news presenter on the New Zealand television station TV3
Politics
- Kanwal Bakshi, Member of Parliament since 2008
- Mahesh Bindra, NZ First List MP since 2014
- Rajen Prasad, former Race Relations Commissioner and Families Commissioner, and Member of Parliament since 2008
- Anand Satyanand, former Governor-General of New Zealand, appointed on 23 August 2006
- Ajit Swaran Singh, District Judge
- Sukhinder (Sukhi) Turner, Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand, 1995–2004
Sport
- Roy Krishna, Fijian football player currently playing for, Wellington Phoenix FC as a striker in the A- league
- Dipak Narshibhai Patel, cricket player who has played 37 Tests and 75 one-day internationals for New Zealand
- Jeetan Patel, former spin bowler for the New Zealand cricket team, the Black Caps
- Ish Sodhi, current spin bowling all-rounder for the Black Caps Test match team
- Jeet Raval, current spin batsman for the Black Caps Test match team
References
- ↑ "[Stats NZ".
- ↑ "Indians in New Zealand - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". Archived from the original on 10 April 2008.
- ↑ "Indians in New Zealand form fastest growing ethnic group".
- 1 2 "New Zealand Migrants – How Many and From Where?". www.enz.org.
- 1 2 3 4 "2013 Census ethnic group profiles: Indian". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ↑ Rohit Kumar Happy
External links
- Te Ara, the encyclopedia of New Zealand
- Indians in New Zealand
- Indian population growth in New Zealand
- New Zealand Indian Central Association
- Indian Weekender Newspaper for Kiwi Indians
- List of Indian groups, organizations and associations in New Zealand
- The Indian Diaspora in New Zealand, a bibliography of known published sources
- NRI Online, news snippets and articles related to New Zealand NRIs
- Bharat-Darshan (भारत-दर्शन): world's first Hindi publication on the net. Indian philosophy and Hindi literary magazine.