Country comparison: Canada / New Zealand

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Canada and New Zealand. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Canada	New Zealand
Region:	North America	Australia/New Zealand
Area:	9,984,670 km²	267,710 km²
National language:	English	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)
Independent since:	1867 AD	1907 AD
Capital:	Ottawa	Wellington

Population

Details for Canada and New Zealand

	Canada	New Zealand
Population:	38,246,000	5,123,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.8	19.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 41.8 years	Ø 37.2 years
Birth rate:	9.40 ‰	11.32 ‰
Death rate:	8.10 ‰	6.41 ‰
Migrationrate:	5.46 ‰	5.83 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Canada	New Zealand
Political stability:	84	90
Civil rights:	93	100
Health:	78	81
Climate:	33	36
Cost of Living:	37	26
Popularity:	45	37

Economy

Details for Canada and New Zealand

	Canada	New Zealand
Currency:	Canadian dollar (1 CAD = 100 Cents)	New Zealand dollar (1 NZD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.5 %	3.8 %
Inflation rate:	3.40 %	3.94 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	105.65 %	117.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	24.50 %	34.60 %
Average income:	48,310 US$	45,230 US$
Corruption index:	26 (good)	13 (good)

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,988,336 M US$	51.99 M US$	249,886 M US$	48.78 M US$
Gross national product:	1,847,687 M US$	48.31 M US$	231,717 M US$	45.23 M US$
Exported goods:	611,146 M US$	15.98 M US$	54,777 M US$	10.69 M US$
Imported goods:	609,256 M US$	15.93 M US$	62,862 M US$	12.27 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Canada and New Zealand

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,042,300 km	27.25 km	94,000 km	18.35 km
Railways:	77,932 km	2.04 km	4,128 km	0.81 km
Harbours:	679	0.0178	115	0.0224
Passenger airports:	234	0.0061	28	0.0055

Energy balance

Details for Canada and New Zealand

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	522.20 bn kWh	13.65 m kWh	39.50 bn kWh	7.71 m kWh
Energy production:	649.60 bn kWh	16.98 m kWh	42.53 bn kWh	8.30 m kWh
Energy export:	73.35 bn kWh	1.92 m kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	2.68 bn kWh	70,124.78 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	580.21 m t	15,170.43 t	34.01 m t	6,639.21 t

Telecommunication

Details for Canada and New Zealand

	Canada	New Zealand
International dialing:	+1	+64
Internet domain:	.ca	.nz

	CAN total	CAN per 1000 inh.	NZL total	NZL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	12,928,000	338	651,000	127
Mobile cellulars:	32,723,000	856	5,846,000	1141
Internet server:	8,743,000	229	3,026,000	591
Internet users:	35,301,158	923	4,687,179	915
Broadband Internet:	16,452,598	430	1,801,118	352

Healthcare system

Details for Canada and New Zealand

	Canada	New Zealand
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.52	2.57
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.61	3.03
Diabetes:	7.6 %	6.2 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.07 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	13.0 %	13.7 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Canada and New Zealand

	Canada	New Zealand
Daytime temperatures:	7.5 °C	17.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	-2.4 °C	9.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	72 %	82 %
Rain days:	8.1	10.6
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	5.8

Native languages

	Canada	New Zealand
English:	58.7 %	72.6 %
French:	22.0 %	1.2 %
Te Reo Māori:	n/a	3.5 %
Chinese:	1.2 %	2.2 %
Samoan:	n/a	2.0 %
Hindi:	n/a	1.6 %
Punjabi:	1.4 %	n/a
Italian:	1.3 %	n/a
German:	1.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	1.3 %	n/a
Tagalog:	1.2 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.1 %	n/a
Portuguese:	0.7 %	n/a
Polish:	0.7 %	n/a
Ukrainian:	0.6 %	n/a
Dutch:	0.5 %	n/a
Russian:	0.4 %	n/a
Eskimo:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	7.5 %	16.9 %

Religions

	Canada	New Zealand
Christianity:	67.2 %	44.3 %
Nondenominational:	23.9 %	38.5 %
Islam:	3.2 %	1.1 %
Hinduism:	1.5 %	2.1 %
Buddhism:	1.1 %	1.4 %
Sikhism:	1.4 %	0.8 %
Maori:	n/a	1.3 %
Jewry:	1.1 %	n/a
other:	0.6 %	10.5 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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