New Zealand

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Population Full

4,841,000 (2018 World Bank)

Principal Languages
English
Literacy Rate
99% (Roser and Ortiz-Ospina 2018)
International Conventions
CDE (1963), CPPDCE (2007), ICCPR (1978), UNCRPD (2008), UNDRIP (2010)
General References
Besnier 1992, Campbell and King 2011, Tryon 1995, Wurm and Hattori 1981
Deaf Population
9,000
Language Counts
The number of established languages listed for New Zealand is 4. All are living languages. Of these, 2 are indigenous and 2 are non-indigenous. Furthermore, 1 is institutional and 3 are in trouble. Also listed are 65 unestablished languages.