BASIC STATISTICS OF NEW ZEALAND (2015 or latest available year)*
(OECD values in parentheses)a

PEOPLE AND SOCIETY

Population (million)

4.6

(1 274)

Population density per km2

17

(35)

Share of population by type of region:

Population compound annual growth rate, latest 5 years

1.1

(0.56)

 Predominantly urban (%)

45

(49)

Income inequality (Gini coefficient)

0.33

(0.32)

 Intermediate (%)

55

(26)

Poverty rate (% of population with less than 50% med. income)

10

(11)

 Rural (%)

-

(25)

Life expectancy

82

(81)

ECONOMY AND EXTERNAL ACCOUNTS

Total GDP (GDP, billion NZD)

241

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)

27

(29)

Total GDP (GDP, billion USD, current PPPs)

170

(51 165)

Main exports (% of total merchandise exports)

GDP, latest 5-year average real growth (Compound annual growth rate)

2.7

(1.9)

Dairy produce; birds’ eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

24

GDP per capita (1 000 USD, current PPPs)

37

(40)

Meat and edible meat offal

14

Value added shares (%)

Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

7

 Agriculture

7

(1.7)

Main imports (% of total merchandise imports)

 Industry including construction

22

(23)

Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock; parts and accessories thereof

13

 Services

71

(75)

Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

13

Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)

28

(29)

Mineral fuels, mineral oils/products of their distillation; bituminous subst.; mineral waxes

10

GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Percentage of GDP

Expenditure

40

(44)

Education expenditure

6.3

(5.4)

Revenue

40

(42)

Health expenditure

7.0

(6.5)

Gross financial debt

41

(86)

Environment protection expenditure

0.3

(0.8)

Net lending/net borrowing

-0.1

-(2.0)

Environmental taxes (% of GDP)

1.3

(1.6)

Environmental taxes (% of total revenue)

4.2

(5.1)

LABOUR MARKET, SKILLS AND INNOVATION

Unemployment rate (% of civilian labour force)

5.8

7.9

Patent applications in environment-related technologies (% of all technologies)b

12

(12)

Tertiary educational attainment of 25- to 64-year-olds (%)

34

(35)

 Environmental management

3

(4)

Gross expenditure on R&D (% of GDP)

1.2

(2.4)

 Water-related adaptation technologies

0.5

(0.4)

 Climate change mitigation technologies

10

(10)

ENVIRONMENT

Energy intensity: TPES per capita (toe/cap.)

4.4

(4.1)

Road vehicle stock (veh./100 inhabitants)

85

(59)

TPES per GDP (toe/1 000 USD, 2010 PPPs)

0.13

(0.11)

Water stress (abstraction as % of available resources)

1

(10)

Renewables (% of TPES)

40.5

(9.6)

Water abstraction per capita (m3/cap./year)

1 195

(819)

Carbon intensity (energy-related CO2):

Municipal waste per capita, (kg/capita)

650

(516)

per capita (t/cap.)

6.9

(9.4)

Material productivity (USD, 2010 PPPs/DMC, kg)

1.0

(1.7)

per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 2010 PPPs)

0.26

0.26

Land area (1 000 km2)

263

(34 341)

GHG intensity:c

 % of arable land and permanent crops

2

(12)

per capita (t/cap.)

18.0

(12.4)

 % of permanent meadows and pastures

40

(23)

per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 2010 PPPs)

0.54

0.34

 % of forest area

39

(31)

Mean population exposure to air pollution (PM2.5, μg/m3)

9

14

 % of other land (built-up and other land)

19

(33)

← * Values earlier than 2010 are not taken into consideration.

← a. Where the OECD aggregate is not provided in the source database, a simple OECD average of the latest available data is calculated where data exist for a significant number of countries.

← b. Higher-value inventions that have sought patent protection in at least two jurisdictions. Averages of latest three years.

← c. Excluding emissions/removals from land use, land-use change and forestry.

Source: Calculations based on data extracted from databases of the OECD, Eurostat, IEA and Statistics NZ.