New Zealand Population 2024 Growth Rate. Around 87 percent of the inhabitants live in the country's larger cities. The current population of new zealand in 2024 is 5,269,939, a 0.8% increase from 2023.

Population growth will slow as new zealand’s population ages and the gap between the number of births and deaths narrows; The population grew in all 16 regions of new zealand in the year ended june 2023, according to provisional estimates released by stats nz today.