Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in New Zealand instead of Liechtenstein, you would:

Economy

make 64.9% less money

Liechtenstein has a GDP per capita of $139,100 as of 2009, while in New Zealand, the GDP per capita is $48,800 as of 2023.

be 55.8% more likely to be unemployed

In Liechtenstein, 2.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2015. In New Zealand, that number is 3.7% as of 2023.

pay a 37.5% higher top tax rate

Liechtenstein has a top tax rate of 24.0% as of 2016. In New Zealand, the top tax rate is 33.0% as of 2016.

Life

be 15.1% less likely to die during infancy

In Liechtenstein, approximately 4.0 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In New Zealand, on the other hand, 3.4 children do as of 2022.

have 22.3% more children

In Liechtenstein, there are approximately 10.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In New Zealand, there are 12.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 2.3 times more on education

Liechtenstein spends 2.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2011. New Zealand spends 6.0% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Ministry of Finance, New Zealand Inland Revenue Department.

New Zealand: At a glance

New Zealand (sometimes abbreviated NZ) is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 264,537 sq km. The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. That same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. The British colony of New Zealand became an independent dominion in 1907 and supported the UK militarily in both world wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to address longstanding Maori grievances.
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