Population falls
PA - Wellington New -Zealand’s:';: pppu-ir. lation declined during the • ■1979 calendar year: by an • estimated 600 people, the ■ 'Government Statistician (Mr E. A. Harris) has said. ■ ■; The total population at December 31 last year was estimated at 3,150,800. The provisional estimate of a net decline of 600 people represented a decrease of 0.02 per cent in the population. In the 1978 calendar year the
population declined 500, ; after an increase., ctf 3600;< :in .1977, Mr Harris,‘said. ‘i: ’However, imspite' of the > annual decrease, an increase of 45,000 was esti-.;. mated for the December, ■1979; quarter. .Mr Harris - said': that .this was caused by an excess of births , over deaths of ? 6800 arid a net gain through migration of 38,200. In the 1978 December quarter there was a corresponding increase of 38,600.
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