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This is a list of New Zealand's international rankings on a range of social, economic and other criteria.


Political and economic rankings

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Ease of Doing Business Index The ease of doing business index was an index created jointly by Simeon Djankov, Michael Klein, and Caralee McLiesh, three leading economists at the World Bank Group. The academic research for the report was done jointly with professors Edward ...
, ranked 1st overall in 2019 out of 185 countries, 1st in the sub-categories of Starting a Business and Getting Credit. :
Political freedom Political freedom (also known as political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies.Hannah Arendt, "What is Freedom?", ''Between Past and F ...
ratings – Free; political rights and
civil liberties Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process. Though the scope of the term differs between countries, civil liberties ma ...
both rated 1 (the highest score available) ::
Press freedom Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exerc ...
– Ranked 8th for press freedom at 1.50. :
GDP per capita Lists of countries by GDP per capita list the countries in the world by their gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The lists may be based on nominal or purchasing power parity GDP. Gross national income (GNI) per capita accounts for inflo ...
– 29th highest (2016), at I$36,172 :
Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, w ...
– 14th highest (2020), at 0.931 : Income Equality – 54th most equal, at 36.2 ( Gini Index) :
Literacy Rate Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...
– 10th equal at 99.0% :
Unemployment rate Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the refere ...
– 48th lowest, at 4.0%. :
Global Peace Index Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accountin ...
– 2nd at 1.253 :
Corruption Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption m ...
– Least corrupt, at 9.4 on Corruption Perceptions Index :
Economic Freedom Economic freedom, or economic liberty, is the ability of people of a society to take economic actions. This is a term used in economic and policy debates as well as in the philosophy of economics. One approach to economic freedom comes from the l ...
– 4th freest, at 80.6 on
Index of Economic Freedom The ''Index of Economic Freedom'' is an annual index and ranking created in 1995 by The Heritage Foundation and ''The Wall Street Journal'' to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations. The creators of the index claim to t ...
(2022), and 3rd, at 8.28 on Economic Freedom of the World index :
Fragile States Index The Fragile States Index (FSI; formerly the Failed States Index) is an annual report published by the United States think tank the Fund for Peace and the American magazine ''Foreign Policy'' from 2005 to 2018, then by The New Humanitarian since 2 ...
, 172/177, being one of the few "sustainable" states in the world.


Health rankings

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Fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were ...
- 155th most fertile, at 1.79 per woman ::
Birth rate The birth rate for a given period is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; populati ...
– 140th most births, at 13.90 per 1000 people :::
Infant mortality Infant mortality is the death of young children under the age of 1. This death toll is measured by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the probability of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births. The under-five morta ...
– 169th most deaths, at 5.85 per 1000 live births :
Death rate Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of d ...
– 123rd highest death rate, at 7.52 per 1000 people :
Life Expectancy Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...
– 17th highest, at 81.6 years (2015) ::
Suicide Rate The following are lists of countries by suicide rate as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. About one person in 5,000–15,000 dies by suicide every year, with an estimated global rate of 10.5 per 100,000 popula ...
– 72nd highest suicide rate, at 14.4 for males and 5.0 for females per 100,000 people (2014) : HIV/AIDS rate – 133rd highest percentage out of 162 countries, at 0.1% : Obesity rate – 22nd highest obesity rate out of 191 countries, at 30.8% according to ''
The World Factbook ''The World Factbook'', also known as the ''CIA World Factbook'', is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is availabl ...
''. In 2005 the
International Agency for Research on Cancer The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC; french: Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC) is an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. Its role is to conduct and ...
found New Zealand men and women to have the third highest cancer rates in the world. In 2012, New Zealand had the 12th highest rate of cancer out of the 34 OECD countries.


Other rankings

* CO2 emissions – 50th highest emissions, at 7.8 tonnes per capita *
Electricity Consumption Electric energy consumption is the form of energy consumption that uses electrical energy. Electric energy consumption is the actual energy demand made on existing electricity supply for transportation, residential, industrial, commercial, and ot ...
– 48th highest consumption of electricity, at 37,030,000,000 kWh *
Broadband Internet access Internet access is the ability of individuals and organizations to connect to the Internet using computer terminals, computers, and other devices; and to access services such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet access is sold by Inte ...
– 15th highest uptake in
OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate ...
, at 29.5% *
List of countries by beer consumption per capita __NOTOC__ This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of beer. Information not provided for some countries is not given in the available sources. ''Note: The row number column is fixed. So you can choose what column to ran ...
– 32nd highest out of 58 countries, at 62.7 litres per capita (2014) *
Environmental Performance Index A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scal ...
– Comprising;
Environmental health Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. In order to effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements that must be met in ...
, air quality,
water resources Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. 97% of the water on the Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water; slight ...
, biodiversity and habitat, productive
natural resource Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications. This includes the sources of valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest and cultural value. ...
s,
Sustainable energy Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Most definitions of sustainable energy include considerations of environmental aspects such as green ...
– 7th out of 80 countries, at 88.9/100 *Legatum Global Prosperity Index – Ranked most prosperous country in the world (2016) *Ease of paying tax – 9th easiest * Imprisonment rate – 68th highest out of 217, at 202 prisoners per 100,000 people (2016) *
List of countries by intentional homicide rate The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year. A mortality rate of 30 (out of 100,000) in a population of 100,000 would mean 30 deaths per year in that entire population, or ...
– 191st out of 218 countries (27th lowest rate) * Victimisation rate – 3rd highest out of 30, with 21.5% of people aged 16 or more being victims *Top Country Award – Won the honor two years in a row (2007, 2008) from Wanderlust Magazine * Good Country Index – Ranked 5th out of 195. Based on the goodness of a nation *
Better Life Index The OECD Better Life Index, created in May 2011 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is an initiative pioneering the development of economic indicators which better capture multiple dimensions of economic and social progr ...
– Ranked 7th (2016) of the 34 OECD countries based on statistics and perceptions of quality of life


See also

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List of international rankings This is a list of international rankings. By category Agriculture * List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities *List of countries by apple production * List of countries by apricot production * List of countries by artichoke ...


References


External links

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