New Zealand
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | High income |
| Regional Group | Asia & Pacific |
| Population (Total) | 4,917,000 |
| Population as a share world total | 0.06% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 207,000 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 0.24% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 43,952 |
Performance Overview
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NZL
Country
New Zealand
Score
73.27
Rank
16
Technology
68.44
People
69.56
Governance
86.57
Impact
68.49
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 84.30 | 18 |
| 2. Handset prices | 73.96 | 11 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 87.77 | 24 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 97.00 | 46 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 99.03 | 5 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 75.42 | 16 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | n/a | n/a |
| 1. GitHub commits | 77.28 | 6 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | 79.37 | 24 |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 86.45 | 18 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 77.97 | 18 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 68.51 | 19 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 41.38 | 26 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 22.01 | 55 |
| 5. Robot density | 14.42 | 29 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 23.46 | 82 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 18.44 | 50 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 14.56 | 25 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 51.66 | 31 |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | 73.86 | 14 |
| 1. Happiness | 88.69 | 11 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 91.29 | 20 |
| 3. Income inequality | n/a | n/a |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 88.73 | 14 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 96.72 | 2 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 63.61 | 26 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 73.04 | 74 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 73.12 | 83 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 91.09 | 16 |
| 1. Internet users | 90.88 | 15 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 44.91 | 19 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 75.26 | 15 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 59.81 | 15 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | n/a | n/a |
| 6. ICT skills | 73.41 | 29 |
| 1. Firms with website | 83.07 | 17 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 100.00 | 1 |
| 3. Professionals | n/a | n/a |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | n/a | n/a |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | 81.24 | 25 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 16.11 | 34 |
| 1. Government online services | 92.73 | 10 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 79.38 | 7 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 51.81 | 35 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 54.95 | 26 |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 79.17 | 27 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 84.62 | 38 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 86.73 | 6 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 88.63 | 8 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 95.00 | 4 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 80.51 | 80 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 65.82 | 23 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | n/a | n/a |
| 1. E-Participation | 98.77 | 4 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 99.29 | 4 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 86.43 | 17 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | n/a | n/a |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 73.94 | 39 |