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In 2013, around 265,000 children, a quarter of all children in New Zealand, were now "mired in poverty". [8] Statistics New Zealand also publishes a range of data on the economic well-being of New Zealanders and, in 2012, released a discussion paper highlighting the need for government agreement on the development of more useful criteria and ...
The evolution of child poverty in New Zealand is associated with the 'Rogernomics' of 1984, the benefit cuts of 1991 and Ruth Richardson's "mother of all budgets", the child tax credit, the rise of housing costs, low-wage employment, and social hazards, both legal and illegal (i.e. alcoholism, drug addiction, and gambling addiction).
In 2005, an international report found that one in six children in New Zealand were being raised in poverty – making New Zealand children 23rd out of 26 rich nations, the fourth poorest of those rated in the report. [20] In 2009 according to NCCSS, over half a million New Zealanders, including 163,000 children were living in poverty. [21]
The decision follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert different currencies into a common, comparable unit and account for price differences across countries. The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day is based on 2017 PPPs. [7]
In May 2020, Statistics New Zealand reported that New Zealand's population had climbed above 5 million people in March 2020; [24] in September 2020, this was revised six months earlier to September 2019 when population estimates were rebased to the 2018 census. [25]
The property bubble in New Zealand is a major national economic and social issue. Since the early 1990s, house prices in New Zealand have risen considerably faster than incomes, [ 1 ] putting increasing pressure on public housing providers as fewer households have access to housing on the private market.
have lived in New Zealand for at least 2 years at any one time since becoming a New Zealand citizen or resident (unless you are a refugee) normally living in New Zealand and intending to stay there. They might still qualify if they were a full-time trainee on an approved work related course (usually less than 12 weeks) and looking for work.
In late January 2019, the New York Times reported rising housing prices to be a major factor in the increasing homelessness in New Zealand so that "smaller markets like Tauranga, a coastal city on the North Island with a population of 128,000, had seen an influx of people who had left Auckland in search of more affordable housing. Average ...