Life Expectancy / New Zealand
New Zealand Life Expectancy
New Zealand life expectancy data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 82.01.
COUNTRY: New Zealand
UNIT: years
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-29 05:08:47
GM ECONOMY RATING
New Zealand · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
67 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
15.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
2.0 / 15
Financial robustness
14.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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New Zealand · life expectancy data as years.
Latest
82.01
Previous
81.76
Range avg.
81.91
Rank
25
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CountryNew Zealand
IndicatorLife Expectancy
82.012024 · Rank 25
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
New Zealand recorded 82.01 for Life Expectancy in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.25 (0.3%), from 81.76 to 82.01.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (81.91).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 81.61 in 2015 and the high was 82.26 in 2020.
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