Reassurance our sluggish population growth isn't cause for alarm - but instead something to adjust to.

It grew over 36,000 in the year to June, our lowest increase since World War Two.

This brought our population to over 5,300,000.

Former Chief Science Adviser Sir Peter Gluckman says our aging population's playing into this.

"You have to think about the balance between the investment in children and young people at the beginning of life, and maintaining people healthy and productive and contributing to society much later in life." 

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Reassurance our sluggish population growth isn't cause for alarm - but instead something to adjust to.
It grew over 36,000 in the year to June, our lowest increase since World War Two.
This brought our population to over 5,300,000.
Former Chief Science Adviser Sir Peter Gluckman says our aging population's playing into this.
"You have to think about the balance between the investment in children and young people at the beginning of life, and maintaining people healthy and productive and contributing to society much later in life."&nbsp;
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With a straight down the middle approach, Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive on Newstalk ZB delivers the very latest news and views to New Zealanders as they wrap up their day.

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Sir Peter Gluckman: former Chief Science Advisor on New Zealand's population increase being the lowest since World War II

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