Te Iwi Maori by Ian Pool

Author:Ian Pool [Pool, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

TABLE 6.13 Estimated Gross Reproduction Rates and Total Fertility Rates (per Woman), Regions, 1926 and 1945

TABLE 6.14 Urban and Rural Child–Woman Ratios, (per 1000), Estimated Gross Reproduction Rates (GRR) and Total Fertility Rates (TFR)(per Woman), 1945

The rural–urban differential which had opened up by 1945 is particularly clear in Table 6.14. It should be noted that a TFR in excess of 7 births per woman is high by any standards, and very few national populations (e.g. Kenya, Rwanda, and eighteenth-century Quebec) are reported to have passed 8.

The fertility differentials provide an explanation for some of the extremes given in the age indices presented in Table 6.15. Auckland and the South Island (again disregarding Wanganui) in 1926, and these two plus Manawatu–Wellington in 1945, have low percentages at young ages and relatively low youth-demographic-dependency ratios. For the remainder of the regions the ratios run from high (1926) to very high (1945).

It is also evident that age dependency declined over the period, but had become much more uniform in North Island rural regions by 1945. The spread was 8 percentage points (1926), a range affected by the extreme case of Thames–Coromandel, or 5 points if this region is excluded, but had reduced to 2 points by 1945.

By 1945 urban Auckland’s aged dependency ratio was very low, but so too was overall dependency, a feature it shared with Manawatu–Wellington and the South Island. This pattern of dependency was due to a combination of low fertility, plus in-migration of young adults, the factor which was to change the face of Maoridom after 1945.

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