New Zealand’s Aging Population and the Great Kiwi Brain Drain

According to data recently released by Statistics New Zealand the number of families is predicted to rise to 1.44 million by 2031, an increase of 269,000 (23 percent) from an estimated 1.17 million families at 30 June 2006. However, the majority of those families will be’ empty nesters‘, i.e. couples aged 50 and over. In…