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The New Zealand Herald business columnist, Liam Dann, lamented that the nation’s population is about to hit 5 million people 30-years earlier than projected in 2004:
I have become obsessed with a Statistics New Zealand press release from 2004.
It forecasts New Zealand’s population to hit 5.05 million people by 2050…
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.