Statistics New Zealand sees potential population growth of 60% over next 50 years if immigration averages less than half current levels

love this option
If there was no migration, the population would peak at 5.3 million around 2050 and then slowly decline.

As much as one hates to admit it, we are currently living in "The good ol' days". The future looks very different for NZ.

and with no oil, food production will be about 1/4 to 1/3rd of what it is today....bound to end well.

I don't see increasing population as any way desirable. I would prefer it to be less than now. I think we should set a desirable population level and work to achieve it.

Surely NZ will have more than 7.5 Million inhabitants in 50 years time, that's not even double the current population.

With most of our wealth generated by a handful of people in the primary and tourist sectors, we need less people not more. The rest of us are just chewing up cash without contributing to the nations exports or replacing imports. Automation will reduce our need for extra people even more.

In my opinion we are better off with a smaller population. NZ is acting like a solo Mum on the DBP, the more children she has the more money she gets, then abandoning her offspring...untill all the prisons are full and the hospitals groaning. More people = less resources, less "clean green" The beautiful NZ i grew up in, is fast being sold down the river.

Narrow minded people don't like change, they don't like "big", narrow minded people like "small" and "the way it used to be"

NZs current population is some 4.50m,of whom 1/3rd live in and around Auckland. The proportion keeps growing,so it is reasonable to assume that if we were to reach 7.50m,then at least 40% of them and probably much more,would live in Greater Auckland,giving it a population of 3m or more.
The economic and social consequences for NZ would be immense and as a country,we need to think seriously about these issues,well ahead of time.
We will have around 1.50m over 65 and this has huge economic implications for pensions,healthcare,work etc and again,we have to plan ahead. I know how unlikely it is,but we need a non party political discussion on where we want to go as a country. We owe this to the succeeding generations who will have to deal with the consequence of our actions or non actions today.

7.5m people by 2050. With any luck, we should have enough houses to accommodate 5m by then

I think reading between the lines they mean born kiwis that are used to space,
Love life? Destination Rotorua offers an escape from the rat race
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=117…

incredibly bull swill article

after having seen something similar elsewhere i'd already set up a spreadsheet to verify such statements so that i could see for myself when people were telling porkies

PEOPLE ARE TELLING PORKIES

our current population growing at typical replacement growth levels would see the population at about 7.4 million in 50 years

that rate of growth, incidentally, is higher than the USA growth over the last 50 years

if you calculate NZ growth based on current (standard) replacement rates plus immigration as we now are experiencing it you get a population in 50 years of more than 13 million

now, realise that the policymakers are the very same people who are making a killing in investment property and will never give up on their greed - so our immigration rates will rise steadily - never will they fall or the whole Ponzie scheme will collapse

the truth is that if our immigration halved from its current rate our population would still be over 10 million in 50 years

fact is - exponential numbers are very tricky and not naturally understood by humans

but people gaming the system with their spreadsheets know

whatever you might think the best population should be you'd better quickly understand the facts at least for your children's sake

the population of NZ will be in the order of 20 million in 50 years

that is what your policy makers secretly believe and everything they do points to that being the case

that's why the ONLY ONLY election policy issue that must always be addressed first and foremost is targeted population

otherwise the scumbags on the inside will continue to game the system with two-faced assurances to the ones who will see their descendants relegated to permanent poverty

Clueless, the whole of the worlds population could be less than this in 50 years time. This planet is in the shit, glad I will not be here in 50 years time to see it. The population crash is inevitable at some point, the resources are limited and took millions on years to create and we are going to have wasted the lot in a few hundred years.