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New Zealand's International Rankings



Political and economic rankings

  • Political freedom ratings - Free; political rights and civil liberties both rated 1 (the highest score available)
  • Press freedom - 12th freest in the world at 2.00
  • GDP per capita - 27th highest in the world at I$24,769
  • Human Development Index - 19th highest in world at 0.933
  • Income Equality - 53rd most equal in world at 36.2 (Gini Index)
  • Literacy Rate - Equal first with a ranking of 99.9%
  • Unemployment rate - 22nd lowest in the world at 3.40%
  • Corruption - 2nd equal least corrupt in world at 9.6 on index
  • Economic Freedom - 9th equal freest at 1.84 on index

Health rankings

  • Fertility rate - 140th most fertile in the world at 1.79 per woman
  • Birth rate - 140th most births in the world at 13.90 per 1000 people
  • Infant mortality - 192nd most deaths in the world at 5.85 per 1000 life births
  • Death rate - 115th highest death rate in the world at 7.52 per 1000 people
  • Life Expectancy - 22nd highest in the world at 78.81 years
  • Suicide Rate - 35th highest suicide rate in the world at 19.8 for males and 4.2 for females
  • HIV/AIDs rate - 149th most cases in the world at 0.10%

Other rankings

  • CO2 emissions - 32nd highest emissions in world at 8.7 metric tons per capita
  • Electricity Consumption - 48th highest consumption of electricity in world at 37,030,000,000 kWh
  • Broadband uptake - 22nd highest uptake in OECD with 8.1%
  • Beer consumption - 16th most at 77.0 litres per capita

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