The charts below show the numbers of people per household in 1990 and 2000 in New Zealand. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The pie graphs illustrate the number of household members in New Zealand in 1990 and 2000.
Overall, despite the percentage of people living alone being much lesser than before, it seems that inhabitants of New Zealand still preferred to have smaller household numbers in the given years.
In 1990, nearly three-fourths of homes in New Zealand contained three people or fewer. Thirty-one percent of households had two people living inside, 21% had just three occupants, and 17% of the population stayed by themselves. Seventeen percent of homes had a group of four living there, whereas homes with five or six people just made up 8% and 6% of the population, respectively.
Ten years later, most households in New Zealand generally still favored a setup of fewer people living together. But the biggest difference was the percentage of people who lived solo (2%), which may have contributed to the percentage changes in the other household numbers. In 2000, the majority of homes had three residents (33%), while 31% still just had two people living together. Households containing four occupants declined slightly to 16% that year, but residences with five members rose to 13%. Lastly, only 3% of New Zealand’s population had six people under the same roof.