The following lists events that happened during 1901 in New Zealand.
Population
A
New Zealand census was held in March 1901. The population was given as 815,862, consisting of 43,112 Māori, 31 Moriori, and 772,719 others.[1] – an increase in the non-Māori population of 9.86% over the previous census in 1896.[2]
The figures for the 1901 census revealed that the
North Island's population had exceeded the
South Island's for the first time since the
Central Otago Gold Rush of 1861 – the two islands (plus their associated minor offshore islands) had populations of 390,579 and 382,140 respectively. Only 40% of the country's population was based in urban centres, and only two of these centres,
Auckland and
Dunedin, had populations of over 25,000.
^McLintock, A. H., ed. (1966).
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