New Zealanders, colloquially known as
Kiwis, are
citizens of
New Zealand. New Zealand is a
multiethnic society, and home to people of many national origins. Originally composed solely of the indigenous
Maori, the
ethnic makeup of the population has been dominated since the 19th century by
New Zealanders of European descent, mainly of
Scottish,
English,
Welsh and
Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as
French,
Dutch,
Scandinavian and
South Slavic. New Zealand had an estimated resident population of around 4.47 million as of June 2013, although around 220,000 of those have been resident in the country for less than five years.