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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 ...
New Zealand suffers from one of the highest rates of child poverty in the Western world. [1] [2] [3] According to Statistics New Zealand, [4] by the end of June 2022, 12% of all children (1 in 9) were directly affected by poverty.
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 statistics related to poverty. [23]
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]
Percentage of children in New Zealand living in households with less than 50 percent of the median equivalised disposable household income after deducting housing costs, year ended June 2013–2022 Items portrayed in this file
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 ...
Poverty in New Zealand is characterised by growing income inequality; wealth in New Zealand is highly concentrated, [265] with the top 1% of the population owning 16% of the country's wealth, and the richest 5% owning 38%, leaving a stark contrast where half the population, including state beneficiaries and pensioners, receive less than $24,000 ...
Poverty in New Zealand; C. Child poverty in New Zealand; H. Homelessness in New Zealand This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 23:30 (UTC). Text is available ...