New Zealand's population could reach the five million milestone by the end of 2019, or early 2020, reported TVNZ quoting Statistics New Zealand senior demographer Mr Kim Dunstan.
At present, Stats NZ indicates that the population stands at around 4,934,000.
Based on forecasts around births, deaths and net migration, Stats NZ estimates that the country's population increases by one person every five minutes and 26 seconds.
The 4m milestone was reached in 2003, but Mr Dunstan said that over the last few years, the population has grown particularly quickly. In the year ended September 2018 the population had grown by 90,000, he said.
New Zealand's population reached 3m in 1973 and 4m in 2003.
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