If the definition of Maori is anyone with any ancestry at all being Maori, including Cook Islands [which is Maori] then it's more like 15% or 20%. That proportion will keep rising due to miscegenation until it is close to 100%. Unless it in fact falls to near zero.
For example, you and I have no European male ancestors from longer ago than 30,000 years because every single male line from before that time died out and the single male great great great [x 1000] grandfather of us all produced ALL of the non-Africans.
Here's some Maori demography. maorilanguage.info So far, the number with at least one ancestor is growing at a rate sufficient to overcome dilution ]near enough for government work].
<New Zealand's 2006 National Census reported that 565,329 people belonged to the Maori ethnic group.
643,977 people reported that they were of Maori descent.
There are approximately 70,000 Maori living in Australia.
New Zealand's total population in 2003 was estimated to be four million.
Q2. How Maori people were living in New Zealand during first European contact?
A2. Estimates suggest that up to 100,000 Maori were living in New Zealand in 1769. At that time there was no other ethnic group in residence.
Q3. When was the Maori population at its lowest number (post European contact)?
A3. In 1896 there were only 42,113 people of predominantly Maori descent.>
So in 1900 there was about 4% Maori DNA. Now there are about 20% with at least some Maori DNA. But that's diluted with other varieties. If Maoris all mated with non-Maori from 1900, then with their population of 43,000 in 1900 of a total of 1,000,000 = 4% and assuming a reproduction every 25 years, that would mean 86,000 in 1925, 180,000 in 1950, 360,000 in 1975, 720,000 in 2000 which is about 16% of the current population, which is about how many Maoris are reported.
Since 1900 there has been a LOT of immigration,
So they seem to be maintaining their proportion and have outbred the rest of the New Zealanders present in 1900, though the numbers are approximate.
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