Singapore-born Chloe Kannangara is of Irish-Dutch and Singaporean-Sinhalese descent - but considers herself to be "half Asian, half Kiwi".

Senior American scientists have been abruptly dismissed from a US Government advisory board on dangerous biological agents.

Older people in New Zealand are happy with their health. About 60 per cent in an extensive survey of the very old told researchers their health was good, very good or excellent.

Senior scientists have criticised an American university for allowing research on a pandemic strain of flu virus that escapes the human immune system.

A controversial scientist has deliberately created a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.

More than a third of all Maori today are children, which could lead to a rise in racial intermarriage and other changes that could shape the country, a demographer says.

This winter was not a good one for farmers in the Fertile Crescent.

The Asian population could hit 800,000 in 10 years and more than two-thirds will be living in Auckland, a Chinese conference this weekend will be told.

The population gain from migration has climbed to a 13-year high as the net loss of people to Australia dwindled to just 210 last month, the lowest for at least 18 years.

Scientists have issued a new warning to the world’s coastal megacities that the threat from subsiding land is a more immediate problem than rising sea levels caused by global warming.

The number of New Zealanders born overseas has topped one million, according to Census statistics released today.

If proof was ever needed that forecast growth in Auckland's population will present challenges, it is to be found in the pressure on school rolls.

Nasa has revealed that one twin will be put in a rocket and the other kept on the ground as part of a study on the effects of orbiting the Earth.

What I want to think about is how grateful I am to the refugees who come and settled in NZ and how angry I am at the disregard with which we treat them, writes Dr Avril Bell.

In the final of our four part series, we look at how NZ's high rate of intermarriage is literally closing ethnic gaps - which casts doubt on distinct catagories of 'Maori families'.

Modern civilisation is heading for collapse within a matter of decades, according to a scientific study funded by Nasa.

It's no secret that Auckland is a diverse city full of different cultures and new research has shed light on exactly how it and the rest of the country are changing.

The South Island has had bigger median income gains than the North over the past seven years, Census figures show.

Our house prices are high, our wages are low - so why is the world coming home to New Zealand?

NZ's population has passed the 4.5 million mark, according to Statistics NZ - meet the baby that pushed us over that milestone.

Personal income has fallen dramatically in South Auckland compared to more affluent Auckland areas, according to the latest Census data.

New Zealand has more ethnicities than there are countries in the world, the 2013 census has revealed.

About 280,000 New Zealanders are waiting for elective surgery, and more than half are not on waiting lists, new research shows.

Editorial: It has been a long wait for a clear measure of New Zealand's population. Now the census confirms it's 4.24m, it's time to think about how to increase that headcount.

Maori will be outnumbered by Asians as the second-biggest ethnic group in New Zealand within the next decade, a leading academic says.

Statistics New Zealand has released key census information on the country's population, its mix of ages and sexes, and where people choose to live.