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Is 2.8% per year population growth too much?
TL;DR: The Government is reviewing migration settings that produced 2.8% population growth last year and is looking at a longer-term strategy of matching population growth to the ‘absorbtive capacity’ of Aotearoa-NZ’s infrastructure.
Our population grew last year at its fastest rate since 1947, when large numbers of troops returning from World War II boosted the figures ahead of near 2% per year growth during the baby-boom years of 1947 to 1967. Governments of both the left and right invested heavily in public infrastructure such as water, roading and power networks from the 1940s to early…
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