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IndicatorNZLNew ZealandEast Asia & Pacific
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #7
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile86.9rank #8
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.64rank #33
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.73rank #15
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #13
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile87.3rank #5
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #7
Military spending% GDP1.2%rank #97
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.58rank #17
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile85.5rank #24
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile84rank #4
Rule of Law0-100 percentile85.7rank #10
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.99rank #5
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.85rank #10
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.79rank #13
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile86.4rank #5
Women in parliament% seats45.5%rank #11
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.94rank #8
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment5.4%rank #125
Agriculture value added% GDP4%rank #114
Annual working hours per workerhours1,707.5rank #90
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker242,236.1rank #61
Current account balance% GDP-3.6%rank #70
Employment-to-population ratio%66.5%rank #28
FDI net inflows% GDP1.4%rank #59
GDPcurrent US$264.06Brank #52
GDP growth%0.46%rank #172
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$49,591rank #23
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $48,232.7rank #38
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $47,259.6rank #34
Government expenditure% GDP35.5%rank #30
Gross capital formation% GDP23.1%rank #87
Gross savings% GDP18.9%rank #94
High-technology exports% manuf. exports13%rank #49
Human capital indexindex3.4rank #28
Industry value added% GDP19.4%rank #134
Inflation%2.8%rank #81
Labour force participation rate%69.9%rank #29
Personal remittances received% GDP0.16%rank #155
R&D expenditure% GDP1.5%rank #26
Researchers in R&Dper million5,435.5rank #17
Tax revenue% GDP29.5%rank #4
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.86rank #20
Trade openness% GDP50.7%rank #131
Unemployment% labor force5.1%rank #90
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%4.9%rank #83
Vulnerable employment% employment12.6%rank #50
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2414.4%rank #104
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2413.1%rank #96
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #1
Basic sanitation access% pop100%rank #1
Child mortalityper 1000.47rank #20
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,121.5rank #68
DTP3 immunization coverage%89%rank #11
Health spending% GDP10.1%rank #9
Infant mortalityper 1k births4rank #21
Life expectancyyears82rank #35
Maternal mortalityper 100k7rank #7
Measles immunization% children89%rank #11
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%89%rank #11
Physiciansper 1k3.6rank #33
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m36.9rank #24
Road traffic deathsper 100k9.6rank #40
Smoking prevalence% adults9.3%rank #21
Suicide mortality rateper 100k11.9rank #132
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k7.9rank #36
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births4.7rank #38
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP5.2%rank #25
Expected years of schoolingyears19.3rank #6
Mean years of schoolingyears12.9rank #20
Primary enrollment% gross96.7%rank #92
Secondary enrollment% gross114.2%rank #13
Tertiary enrollment% gross77.2%rank #19
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00011rank #134
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.6rank #138
Median age of populationyears37.3rank #68
Net migration rateper 1,0004.1rank #44
Populationpeople5.32Mrank #124
Population growth%0.65%rank #125
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years85.7rank #35
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands5,755.3rank #123
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age54.3rank #112
Urban population%84%rank #37
Climate
CO₂ emissionst32.48Mrank #72
CO₂ per capitat6.2rank #46
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation1.1%rank #14
Electricity from hydro% generation54.9%rank #12
Electricity from solar% generation0.85%rank #75
Electricity from wind% generation9.7%rank #31
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita7,988.8rank #10
Forest area% land37.8%rank #81
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita13.5rank #171
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh92.8rank #11
Renewable electricity%88.5%rank #8
Renewable energy share%28.9%rank #75
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e70rank #117
Society
Asylum seekerspeople43rank #16
Female labor participation%66.1%rank #20
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10038rank #27
Gender Development Indexratio0.97rank #48
Gender Inequality Index0-10.08rank #27
Homicide rateper 100k1.5rank #42
Human Development Index0-10.94rank #13
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.85rank #15
Internet users% pop93.5%rank #37
Life satisfaction0-107rank #11
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.73rank #34
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #9
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #3
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #9
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #23
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people2,148rank #116
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people58rank #19
Youth NEET rate%12.8%rank #56
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102.3rank #18
Human hazard & exposure0-100rank #1
INFORM risk score0-101.6rank #5
Lack of coping capacity0-101.5rank #7
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.4rank #11
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-101.6rank #3
Natural hazard & exposure0-104.1rank #28
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.3rank #4
Vulnerability0-101.1rank #4
Vulnerable groups0-101.8rank #13
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