🇳🇿New Zealand

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Population

5.3M

0.7%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.57

births/woman

Life Expectancy

82.0y

GDP / capita

$49.6K

Pop. Growth

0.65%

Net Migration

17.4K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in New Zealand by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇧United Kingdom254.5K(18.7%)

+1%

🇮🇳India149.7K(11.0%)

+156%

🇨🇳

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male2.6MTotal 5.3M2.7MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

1.5

per 100,000

Divorce rate

1.7

per 1,000 · 2019

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇵🇭Philippines107.6K(7.9%)

+268%

🇿🇦South Africa102K(7.5%)

+105%

🇦🇺Australia89.1K(6.5%)

+42%

🇫🇯Fiji70.6K(5.2%)

+49%

🇼🇸Samoa63.1K(4.6%)

+25%

🇺🇸United States32.9K(2.4%)

+60%

🇰🇷Korea, Rep.31.9K(2.3%)

+8%

🇹🇴Tonga30K(2.2%)

+38%

🇲🇾Malaysia23.2K(1.7%)

+48%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the New Zealand diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in New Zealand who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇦🇺Australia588.1K(86.9%)

+13%

🇬🇧United Kingdom50.8K(7.5%)

−19%

🇨🇦Canada10.9K(1.6%)

−5%

🇨🇳China3.8K(0.6%)

+7%

🇯🇵Japan3.8K(0.6%)

+16%

🇸🇬Singapore3.4K(0.5%)

+53%

🇭🇰Hong Kong SAR, China2.4K(0.4%)

+10%

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea1.8K(0.3%)

+2%

🇼🇸Samoa1.2K(0.2%)

−25%

🇿🇦South Africa1K(0.2%)

−25%

🇩🇰Denmark1K(0.1%)

+39%

🇮🇹Italy959(0.1%)

+24%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Abortion rate over time

Induced abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49

Source: WHO / Guttmacher (compiled)