New Zealand GDP per Capita
The economy's output in a full calendar year divided by the number of people living there that year: the usual measure of average living standards.
NZ$83.8k
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1988 to 2025
Source: Calculated: GDP for each complete calendar year divided by that year's population. GDP: OECD quarterly national accounts (DF_QNA, table T0102) · Stats NZ's GDP at current prices, NZ$ million, seasonally adjusted, quarterly. Population: World Bank · Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL).
New Zealand GDP per Capita in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In New Zealand, the GDP per capita rose by NZ$2.9k in 2025, from NZ$80.9k in 2024.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in 1988.
Over the past five years it has ranged from NZ$63.9k in 2020 to NZ$83.8k in 2025.
New Zealand is 22nd of 61 countries in our GDP per Capita by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
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- Source
- Calculated: GDP for each complete calendar year divided by that year's population. GDP: OECD quarterly national accounts (DF_QNA, table T0102)
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- NZD
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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