Māori in New Zealand

Speakers

185,955

Type

Location

Māori in New Zealand

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Māori in New Zealand

Size

185,955

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
Yes

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

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Audio

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Documentation: descriptions

Standardization

Graphisation & script encoding

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Size / Number of users

Number of users

185955
Source
2018 Census
https://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz
Year
2018
Comments

Count of the number of usual residents who can hold a conversation about a lot of everyday things in Te Reo Maori.

Users within total population

4.00000
Less than 10% use the language

PROPORTION

4
Source
2018 Census
https://nzdotstat.stats.govt.
Year
2018
Comments
There were 4,699,755 usual residents in the 2018 census.
The number of usual residents who can hold a conversation about a lot of everyday things in Te Reo Maori was 185,955.

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Age distribution of users

0
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of older generations (> 65)

Generational use

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

70
73
More than 50% digital users of the language
Actual percentage
72
Source

2018 Census.
This data is not published and is sourced from the Customised Data Requests Team at Statistics New Zealand.

Year
2018
Comments

Proportion of usual residents who can hold a conversation about a lot of everyday things in Te Reo Maori who live in households with access to the internet.

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion