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  2. Demographics of New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    The demographics of New Zealand encompass the gender, ethnic, religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 5.3 million [6] people living in New Zealand. New Zealanders predominantly live in urban areas on the North Island. The five largest cities are Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, and Tauranga. Few New Zealanders live ...

  3. Poverty in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    [22] in 2012 New Zealand has 2.7 doctors per 1,000 population, and increase from 2.2 in the year 2000. Wealth inequality in New Zealand, measured by the Gini coefficient, stands at 0.34 as of June 2019. [23] In 2012, life expectancy at birth in New Zealand stood at 81.5 years, more than one year higher than the OECD average of 80.2 years. [24]

  4. Child poverty in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Living standards in New Zealand fell behind those of Australia and Western Europe, and by 1982 New Zealand had the lowest per-capita income of all the developed nations surveyed by the World Bank. [246] In the mid-1980s New Zealand deregulated its agricultural sector by phasing out subsidies over a three-year period.

  6. Economic inequality in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    An egalitarian New Zealand was briefly realised in the interwar and post-war periods, when successive governments sponsored a massive state housing programme. Economic inequality in New Zealand is one of the social issues present in the country. Between 1982 and 2011, New Zealand's gross domestic product grew by 35%. Almost half of that ...

  7. New Zealand property bubble - Wikipedia

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    New Zealand society as a whole continues to dream the dream of owner-occupied home-ownership despite changing economic and environmental conditions. The local real-estate sector promotes myths of moving onto (and up) the property ladder [9] accordingly, and New Zealand politicians foster the idea of a stable democracy rooted in property-ownership.

  8. Living on the edge of the world. On her social media channels, Blomdahl shows viewers firsthand how Svalbard’s environment shapes her everyday life.

  9. Homelessness in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    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 ...