In the last decade New Zealand has experienced some of its fastest population growth, with 5.3 million people now living in ...

New Zealand's population has grown by 374,400 since 2018, an average annual increase of 1.2 percent, which is slightly below the 1.3 percent annual growth seen between 1999 and 2018, Stats NZ said.

Calculating the dual effect of rising seas and sinking land gives coastal communities a more accurate projection of the impacts of sea-level rise.