New Zealand GDP Data & Country Report

New Zealand Country Report: GDP data and GDP forecasts; economic, financial and trade information; the best banks in New Zealand; country and population overview

DATA ON GDP AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

Central bank

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

International Reserves

US$ 20.562 billion (Source: IMF; Data updated: November 2011)

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

US$ 153.252 billion (2009 estimate)

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

120.2 billion of International dollars (2009 estimate)

Real GDP growth

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
3.8%	2.5%	4.9%	4.2%	4.4%	3.2%	1%	2.8%
2008	2009	2010	2011*
-0.1%	-2.1%	1.5%	0.9%

*Estimate

GDP per capita - current prices

US$ 34,701 (2009 estimate)

GDP per capita - PPP

$27,217 International Dollars (2009 estimate)

GDP (PPP) - share of world total

1980	1990	2000	2010	2015**
0.23%	0.2%	0.18%	0.16%	0.15%

**Forecast

GDP - composition by sector

agriculture: 4.7%
industry: 24%
services: 71.3% (2011 estimate)

(Data released on February 2012)

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (% of GDP)

1.21% (2007)

(Data released on November 2010)

Inflation

2008	2009	2010	2011*
4%(2008)	2.1%	2.3%	4.1%

*Estimate

Unemployment rate

2008	2009	2010	2011*
4.2%	6.2%	6.5%(2009)	6.7%

*Estimate

Household saving rates

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010	2011*
17.4%	20.4%	26.1%	31.6%	35.8%

*Estimate

Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010*	2011**
2.9%	0.7%	-2.8%	-4.1%	-3.4%

*Estimate **Forecast

Government bond ratings

Standard & Poor's: AA+/Stable/A-1+

Moody's rating: Aaa

Moody's outlook: STA

(Foreign Currency Government Bond Ratings; Data last updated Nov 2010)

Market value of publicly traded shares

2007	2008	2009
US$47.454 billion	US$24.166 billion	US$67.061 billion

Largest companies in New Zealand

N/A

DATA ON TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS

Current account balance

US$ -0.3 billion (2009 estimate)(After 2008)

Current account balance by percentage of GDP

-0.2% of GDP (2009 estimate)(2009)

Exports as percent of GDP

(Exports of goods and services)

29% (2007)

(Data released on December 2010)

Shares in world total merchandising export

0.21%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Shares in world total commercial services export

0.23%(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Total exports

US$33.24 billion f.o.b. (2010 estimate)

Export commodities

dairy products, meat, wood and wood products, fish, machinery

Total imports

US$31.11 billion (2008 estimate)

Import commodities

machinery and equipment, vehicles and aircraft, petroleum, electronics, textiles, plastics

Exports - major partners

Australia 22%, US 11.5%, Japan 9.2%, China 5.3%, UK 4.6% (2007)

Imports - major partners

Australia 20.7%, China 13.4%, US 9.7%, Japan 9.5%, Singapore 4.9%, Germany 4.7% (2007)

FDI inflows

2008	2009	2010
US$4,598 million	US$-1,293 million(2009)	US$561 million(2009)

FDI outflows

2008	2009	2010
US$462 million	US$-308 million	US$589 million

Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser

2008	2009	2010	2011
US$4,092 million	US$-275 million(2009)	US$5,037 million(2009)	US$1,232 million

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2008

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2010

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd, Pactiv Corp, United States, $4.5 billion
(2008 estimate)

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Best countries for doing business

World Bank/IFC Doing Business Project

(Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 183. A high ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.)

Overall ranking: 3 out of 183 countries(2009) (2010)

Subcategories:

Starting a business: 1 out of 183 countries(2009)

Registering property: 3 out of 183 countries

Paying Taxes: 26 out of 183 countries

Getting credit: 2 out of 183 countries

Protecting investors: 1 out of 183 countries

Trading across border: 28 out of 183 countries

Enforcing Contracts: 9 out of 183 countries

(2010)

Global competitiveness ranking
(ranking by country on a basis of 142, the first is the best)

(2011/2012)

Index of Economic Freedom

WSJ and Heritage Foundation

Ranking: 4 Score: 82.3 (Free) (2009)

(100=totally free 0=totally repressed )

COUNTRY AND POPULATION OVERVIEW

Time zone

UTC+12

Total area

270,467 km² (2006)

Capital

Wellington (2009)

Currency

New Zealand dollars (NZD) (2009)

Government type

parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm (2009)

Languages

English (official), Maori (official), Sign Language (official)

Religions

Anglican 14.9%, Roman Catholic 12.4%, Presbyterian 10.9%, Methodist 2.9%, Pentecostal 1.7%, Baptist 1.3%, other Christian 9.4%, other 3.3%, unspecified 17.2%, none 26% (2001 census)

Total population

1980	1990	2000	2010*	2015**
3.11 million	3.41 million	3.86 million	4.37 million	4.6 million

*Estimate **Forecast

Urban population as % of total population

1960	1980	2000	2009
76%	83.4%	85.7%	86.7%

Population median age

36.0 years (2006)

Population growth rate

1.1% (2009)

Life expectancy

80 years (2007)

Adult literacy

N/A

% of population living on less than $2 a day

N/A

Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index)

36.2 (1997)

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)

Freedom House rating

Political Rights:1
Civil Liberties:1 (2010)

(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free)

Total telephone subscribers as % of population

157.73% (2010)

(sum of fixed telephone lines and mobile cellular subscribers)

Internet users as % of total population

83% (Data were released in 2011 and refer to 2010)

Cost of living index

(ranking by city on a basis of 214; the 1st is the most expensive and the 214th is the least expensive)

Wellington: 136th (2011)

CO2 emissions
(Metric tons of CO2 per capita)

7.8239 (2008)

GLOBAL FINANCE RANKINGS AND AWARDS

WORLD'S BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS & PROVIDERS

2012:

COUNTRY WINNERS ANZ (National, 2012)

WORLD'S BEST DEVELOPED MARKET BANKS

2012:

Kiwibank (National, 2012)

WORLD'S BEST INTERNET BANKS

2011:

COUNTRY WINNERS / Best Corporate / Institutional Internet Banks Citi (National, 2011)

2010:

COUNTRY WINNERS / Best Corporate / Institutional Internet Banks Citi (National, 2010)

2009:

COUNTRY WINNERS / Best Corporate / Institutional Internet Banks Citi (2009)

WORLD'S SAFEST BANKS

2010:

REGIONAL WINNERS ASB Bank (Australasia, 2010)
OVERALL SAFEST ASB Bank (Global, 2010)

2009:

OVERALL SAFEST ASB Bank Limited (Global, 2009)

WORLD'S BEST SUB CUSTODIANS

2011:

COUNTRY WINNERS HSBC (National, 2011)

2010:

COUNTRY WINNERS HSBC (National, 2010)

2009:

COUNTRY WINNERS HSBC (2009)

CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARD

2011:

Grade: B (Alan Bollard, 2011)

2010:

Grade: B (Alan Bollard, 2010)

2009:

Grade: C (Alan Bollard, 2009)

WORLD'S BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS

2012:

COUNTRY WINNERS ANZ (National, 2012)

2011:

COUNTRY WINNERS ANZ (National, 2011)

2010:

COUNTRY WINNERS Westpac Banking (National, 2010)

2009:

COUNTRY WINNERS Westpac Banking (National, 2009)

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