Maori Overseas

" More than 60,000 NZ-born Maori now live in Australia."
In 2001 there were an estimated 62 thousand New Zealand-born Maori living in Australia, and another 41 thousand in Australia with at least one New Zealand-born Maori parent.
Elsewhere in the world, there were about another 18 thousand New Zealand-born Maori living overseas, (England 8000, Canada 1000, the USA 1000), and 12 thousand with at least one New Zealand-born Maori parent.

So in 2001 the total number of NZ-born Maori living overseas was about 80 thousand, and there were another 53 thousand overseas-born Maori with at least one New Zealand-born Maori parent.

Therefore the total number with NZ Maori ancestory living overseas was about 133 thousand.

And of the 550,000 Maori living in New Zealand in 2001, about 5,000 had been born overseas.

A Statistics New Zealand report says:

"Like New Zealanders generally, the Maori population is mobile. The highest number of Maori movers are those aged in their 20s.
" There are now about 4000 Australian-born Maori children in New Zealand."
The 1996 NZ Census recorded 9,600 Maori who had returned to New Zealand from overseas within the last five years. Most of these were aged under 40, and two-thirds had been living in Australia."

"Nearly 2,000 of those Maori enumerated in the 1996 Census who had been overseas in 1991 were children, and over 3,500 were in the 25-34 age group. This suggests that most were returning for family or economic reasons."