Economy

Imports
$51.5 billion (2022).  Refined Petroleum ($5.4B), Cars ($3.94B), Delivery Trucks ($1.32B), Gas Turbines ($1.28B), and Broadcasting Equipment ($1.2B), importing mostly from China ($11B), Australia ($7.3B), United States ($3.96B), South Korea ($3.45B), and Singapore ($3.3B).

Financial inclusion factors (over 15 years of  age)
• 98.8% have an account with a financial institution
• 57.2% have a credit card
• 80% make online purchases

Ease of doing business
It is extremely easy to conduct business (rated 86.8 out of 100) ranked 1st out of 34 OECD high income countries, ranked 1st out of 190 countries worldwide (2023, World Bank).

Exports
$46.5 billion (2022). Concentrated Milk ($6.99B), Sheep and Goat Meat ($2.79B), Butter ($2.78B), Frozen Bovine Meat ($2.71B), and Rough Wood ($2.3B), exporting mostly to China ($13.1B), Australia ($5.35B), United States ($5.07B), Japan ($2.75B), and South Korea ($1.69B).
In 2022, New Zealand was the world’s biggest exporter of Concentrated Milk ($6.99B), Butter ($2.78B), Rough Wood ($2.3B), Casein ($1.18B), and Honey ($273M).

Economic freedom
‘Free’ (77.8 out of 100) ranked 3rd out of 39 Asia-Pacific countries, ranked 6th out of 184 countries worldwide (2023, Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal)

Global Innovation Index
Ranked 7th out of 16 South-East, East Asia and Oceanian countries, 27th out of 132 worldwide.

The Global Innovation Index captures the innovation
ecosystem performance of 132 economies and tracks the most recent global innovation trends.

Internet Data

Internet users
95.7% penetration, 5.03 million

Share of web traffic by device
42.43% mobile phones, 53.63% computers (laptops and desktops), 3.84% tablet devices, 0.10% other devices

Median speed of cellular mobile Internet connection
69.91 Mbps

Median speed of fixed Internet connection
162.50 Mbps

Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 130.3%

Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 98.9%

Most popular web search engines
Google (93.01%), Bing (4.91%), Yahoo! (0.97%), DuckDuckGo (0.72%), Ecosia (0.13%), other (0.27%)

Most used social media
Facebook (63.17%), Pinterest (11.2%), Instagram (10.56%), Twitter (8.01%), Reddit (3.61%), YouTube (2.12%), LinkedIn (0.7%), other (0.61%).

Social statistics

Life expectancy
83 yrs (2022)

CO2 emissions
6.16 metric tons per capita (2020)

Corruption perceptions Index
New Zealand scored 87 out of 100, ranked 2nd out of 180 countries worldwide.

Glass Ceiling Index
68.2 out 100, ranked 9th out of 29 countries.

The glass-ceiling index measures the environment for working women combining data on higher education, labor-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity and paternity rights, business-school applications, and representation in senior jobs.

Ethnicity
New Zealanders are very proud of their country and on the whole very accepting of other ethnicities.  You may hear (especially from the older generation) remarks that are not always positive when it comes to immigration.  Concerns about immigration seem to revolve around land ownership and overseas investments.  These concerns do not seem to transgress into the workplace.

Current health expenditure
10.05% of GDP (2021)

World Happiness Index
New Zealand ranked 10 out of 146 countries, with a score of 7.200.

Religion
New Zealanders are not overly religious.  The role of the church does not have any affect in the workplace. 

Class
There is no significant class system in the country. However, Aucklanders are sometimes looked on as being in a different class by small town residents.  There is sometimes a discrepancy between Pakeha (white) and Maori (native) incomes and ways of life.  In the workplace this does not seem to have any affect.

Gender
New Zealand was the first country to grant women the right to vote and it has also had two women Prime Ministers.  There is still room for the country to improve its gender equity given the continuing bias towards men in upper management.  However, the overall gender ethos respects men and women as equals in the workplace.

Cultural Curiosities
When in New Zealand, it is important to consider that the culture is a blend of Polynesian, Oceanic, and European influences, and to be sensitive to the Māori culture and its history, which has suffered the most due to colonization.