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Life expectancy vs. GDP per capita in New Zealand

New Zealand: Life expectancy vs. GDP per capita was 82.09 years in 2023. ▲ Rising

Latest (2023)
82.09 years
Change on year
up 1.3%
World rank
36th
of 236 countries
All-time high
82.66 years
in 2020
All-time low
68.81 years
in 1948
Years of data
76
1948–2023

Life expectancy vs. GDP per capita in New Zealand, 1948–2023

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Source: Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in years.

Analysis

The most recent figure for life expectancy vs. gdp per capita in New Zealand is 82.09 years, measured in 2023.

The figure is up 1.3% on the previous year and up 0.6% over ten years.

Over the whole period, life expectancy vs. gdp per capita in New Zealand peaked at 82.66 years in 2020 and was at its lowest, 68.81 years, in 1948.

New Zealand ranks 36th of 236 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 76 years of available data.

Life expectancy vs. GDP per capita in New Zealand, year by year

Year years Change
1948 68.81 years —
1949 68.95 years +0.2%
1950 69.25 years +0.4%
1951 69.13 years -0.2%
1952 69.38 years +0.4%
1953 70.21 years +1.2%
1954 70.33 years +0.2%
1955 70.48 years +0.2%
1956 70.72 years +0.3%
1957 70.26 years -0.7%
1958 70.88 years +0.9%
1959 70.77 years -0.1%
1960 71.22 years +0.6%
1961 70.93 years -0.4%
1962 71.2 years +0.4%
1963 71.27 years +0.1%
1964 71.3 years +0.0%
1965 71.22 years -0.1%
1966 71.07 years -0.2%
1967 71.44 years +0.5%
1968 71.09 years -0.5%
1969 71.47 years +0.5%
1970 71.22 years -0.4%
1971 71.72 years +0.7%
1972 71.82 years +0.1%
1973 71.68 years -0.2%
1974 71.94 years +0.4%
1975 72.2 years +0.4%
1976 72.4 years +0.3%
1977 72.13 years -0.4%
1978 73.01 years +1.2%
1979 73.05 years +0.1%
1980 72.86 years -0.3%
1981 73.63 years +1.1%
1982 73.72 years +0.1%
1983 73.83 years +0.1%
1984 74.37 years +0.7%
1985 73.88 years -0.7%
1986 74.12 years +0.3%
1987 74.21 years +0.1%
1988 74.48 years +0.4%
1989 74.89 years +0.5%
1990 75.43 years +0.7%
1991 76.08 years +0.9%
1992 76.19 years +0.1%
1993 76.5 years +0.4%
1994 76.92 years +0.5%
1995 76.79 years -0.2%
1996 76.81 years +0.0%
1997 77.34 years +0.7%
1998 78.17 years +1.1%
1999 77.91 years -0.3%
2000 78.67 years +1.0%
2001 78.66 years -0.0%
2002 78.87 years +0.3%
2003 79.14 years +0.3%
2004 79.35 years +0.3%
2005 80.03 years +0.9%
2006 80.02 years -0.0%
2007 80.12 years +0.1%
2008 80.25 years +0.2%
2009 80.55 years +0.4%
2010 81.05 years +0.6%
2011 80.84 years -0.3%
2012 81.17 years +0.4%
2013 81.61 years +0.5%
2014 81.41 years -0.2%
2015 81.59 years +0.2%
2016 82 years +0.5%
2017 81.61 years -0.5%
2018 81.88 years +0.3%
2019 81.83 years -0.1%
2020 82.66 years +1.0%
2021 82.3 years -0.4%
2022 81.01 years -1.6%
2023 82.09 years +1.3%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1940s 68.88 years 68.81 years 68.95 years 2
1950s 70.14 years 69.13 years 70.88 years 10
1960s 71.22 years 70.93 years 71.47 years 10
1970s 72.12 years 71.22 years 73.05 years 10
1980s 74 years 72.86 years 74.89 years 10
1990s 76.81 years 75.43 years 78.17 years 10
2000s 79.57 years 78.66 years 80.55 years 10
2010s 81.5 years 80.84 years 82 years 10
2020s 82.01 years 81.01 years 82.66 years 4

Countries ranked near New Zealand

  1. 33 Luxembourg 82.23 years compare
  2. 34 Netherlands 82.16 years compare
  3. 35 Belgium 82.11 years compare
  4. 37 Guadeloupe 82.05 years compare
  5. 38 Austria 81.96 years compare
  6. 39 Denmark 81.93 years compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is life expectancy vs. gdp per capita in New Zealand?
Life expectancy vs. gdp per capita in New Zealand was 82.09 years in 2023, according to Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
What is the highest life expectancy vs. gdp per capita recorded in New Zealand?
The highest recorded value was 82.66 years in 2020.
What is the lowest life expectancy vs. gdp per capita recorded in New Zealand?
The lowest recorded value was 68.81 years in 1948.
How does New Zealand rank for life expectancy vs. gdp per capita?
New Zealand ranks 36th out of 236 countries with data for 2023.
Is life expectancy vs. gdp per capita rising or falling in New Zealand?
Over the last ten years it is up 0.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this New Zealand data come from?
The figures come from Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Life expectancy vs. GDP per capita. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Life expectancy vs. GDP per capita
Unit
years
Source
Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 19,452 data points, 1543–2023
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Period life expectancy is the number of years the average person born in a certain year would live if they experienced the same chances of dying at each age as people did that year.