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Economic Development Indicators 2007

[ Last Updated 7 December 2007 ]

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Figure 1: New Zealand's performance relative to the OECD against key indicators
Figure 1.1: Score in the UN's Human Development Index, 2004
Figure 1.2: Economist Intelligence Unit's quality of life index, 2005 and GDP per capita, 2005
Figure 1.3: Environmental Performance Index, 2006 and Environmental Sustainability Index, 2005
Figure 1.4: Real GDP and real GNI per capita, 2005
Figure 1.5: Real GDP per capita growth
Figure 1.6: Real GDP per capita as a proportion of the OECD average
Figure 1.7: Sectoral decomposition of New Zealand GDP
Figure 1.8: Sectoral contributions to gross value added - New Zealand and comparator countries
Figure 1.9: A decomposition of household wealth
Figure 1.10: Disposable income inequality
Figure 2.1: Labour productivity and participation, 2005
Figure 2.2: Ratio of the population aged 65 and over to the total population
Figure 2.3: Workforce participation rate by age group and gender
Figure 2.4: Standardised unemployment rate (cross-country)
Figure 2.5: Growth in labour productivity (cross-country)
Figure 2.6: Average annual growth rate of multi-factor productivity (cross-country)
Figure 2.7: Annual growth rate in labour productivity, measured sectors
Figure 2.8: Labour productivity index, measured sectors
Figure 2.9: Average annual labour productivity by sector, measured sectors
Figure 2.10: Index of capital-labour ratio, measured sectors
Figure 3.1: Total fixed investment as a percentage of GDP
Figure 3.2: Five-year average annual growth rate of real total fixed investment
Figure 3.3: Investment as a percentage of nominal GDP
Figure 3.4: Plant and machinery investment as a percentage of nominal GDP
Figure 3.5: Housing investment as a percentage of GDP
Figure 3.6: Net national saving as a percentage of GDP
Figure 3.7: Household net saving
Figure 3.8: Capital Access Index
Figure 3.9: Size of banking sector
Figure 3.10: Size of sharemarket
Figure 3.11: Investment in venture capital, 2000-2003
Figure 3.12: Informal capital market - informal investment, 2004
Figure 3.13: R&D as a percentage of GDP, 2004
Figure 3.14: Average annual growth of GERD and BERD (selected OECD countries 1995-2004)
Figure 3.15: Science and engineering articles per million inhabitants
Figure 3.16: Researchers per thousand employed and average annual growth, 1995-2003
Figure 3.17: Patents per million population, 2003
Figure 3.18: Rates of innovation activity by type, New Zealand 2005, EU 2002-2004
Figure 3.19: Percentage of business innovating by industry, 2005
Figure 3.20: R&D tax concessions for large firms and SMEs, 2004
Figure 3.21: Grants and subsidies for business R&D, 2005
Figure 3.22: Share of high- and medium-high- technology industries in manufacturing exports, 2003
Figure 3.23: Percentage of research funded by business carried out by government research organisations and departments
Figure 3.24: Percentage of total R&D expenditure financed from abroad
Figure 3.25: Percentage of research funded by business carried out by higher education institutes
Figure 3.26; Firm entry, exit and turnover rates, 2001-2005
Figure 3.27: New Zealand's and other countries' share in the world trade for merchandise and services
Figure 3.28: Value of exports and imports as a percentage of GDP - New Zealand
Figure 3.29: Trade as a percentage of GDP, and country size
Figure 3.30: Investment overseas, foreign investment in New Zealand and the net international investment position (stock measure)
Figure 3.31: Inward and outward FDI stock as a percentage of GDP, 2004
Figure 3.32: Greenfield projects by destination per million population, 2002-2005
Figure 3.33; Permanent and long-term migration per annum
Figure 3.34; Net migration per thousand population (annual average 2000-2005)
Figure 3.35; Foreign-born people as a percentage of total population, 2004
Figure 3.36: Foreign-born people with tertiary education, circa 2000
Figure 3.37: Foreign fee-paying students in tertiary education
Figure 4.1: Perceived availability of competent senior managers, 2004 and 2006
Figure 4.2: Percentage of adult population with bachelor's degree as the highest qualification, 2001 and 2004
Figure 4.3: Distribution of population aged 25-64 years by highest qualification, 1991-2006
Figure 4.4: Percentage of adult population with higher skills (level 3 or above), 1996
Figure 4.5: Hours of continuing education and job-related training per adult, 1994-1998
Figure 4.6: University graduation rates, 2001 and 2006
Figure 4.7: Quality of leading universities, 2006
Figure 4.8: Science and engineering graduates per million population, 2003
Figure 4.9: Domestic bachelor's graduates by field of study, 1999 and 2005
Figure 4.10: PhD graduates per million population, 2002
Figure 4.11: PISA scientific, mathematical and reading literacy of 15-year-olds, 2003
Figure 4.12: TIMSS science and mathematics achievement of eighth grader (equivalent to 13- to 14-year-olds in New Zealand)
Figure 4.13: Percentage of school leavers with university entrance standard vs school leavers with little or no qualification
Figure 4.14: Education enrolments at ages 15-20, 2004
Figure 4.15: Perceived overall infrastructure quality, 2006
Figure 4.16: Public capital stock per person in thousands (USD), 2000
Figure 4.17: ICT investment as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation, 1995 and 2003
Figure 4.18: Broadband subscribers per hundred inhabitants, 2006
Figure 4.19: Percentage increase in broadband subscription rates, 2004-2006
Figure 4.20: Number of websites per thousand inhabitants, 2002
Figure 4.21: Mobile phone subscribers per hundred inhabitants, 2005
Figure 4.22: Mobile telephone costs (prepaid), 2005
Figure 4.23: Perceived quality of telephone and fax infrastructure, 2006
Figure 4.24: Perceived quality of air transportation, 2006
Figure 4.25: Perceived quality of port infrastructure, 2006
Figure 4.26: Airports per million people, 2006
Figure 4.27: Perceived quality of energy infrastructure, 2006
Figure 4.28: Electricity prices in New Zealand (2006 prices)
Figure 4.29: Energy intensity, 2004
Figure 4.30: Renewable electricity as a percentage of total electricity production, 2004
Figure 4.31: Public waste water plants (percentage of population connected), 2005
Figure 4.32: Water withdrawal as a percentage of gross annual availability, 2005
Figure 4.33: Ease of doing business index, 2007
Figure 4.34: Ease of doing business index, 10-category breakdown, 2007
Figure 4.35: Product market regulation and competition index, 1998 and 2003
Figure 4.36: Barriers to competition index, 1998 and 2003
Figure 4.37: World Bank rigidity of employment index, 2006
Figure 4.38: Days lost to strikes per thousand employees
Figure 4.39: Central and local government tax revenue as a percentage of GDP, 2004
Figure 4.40: Central government tax revenue as a percentage of GDP, New Zealand, 1995-2007
Figure 4.41: Breakdown of tax revenue by source, 2004
Figure 4.42: corporate tax rates (total central and local), 2000-2006
Figure 4.43: Effective marginal tax rates on individuals, single income earner, New Zealand, 2008
Figure 4.44: Revenue from environmental taxes for pollution control as a percentage of GDP
Figure 4.45: Real GDP growth
Figure 4.46: Inflation rate (growth rate in CPI)
Figure 4.47: National house price index change, 1997-2006
Figure 4.48: General government total outlays as a percentage of GDP
Figure 4.49: General government financial balance as a percentage of GDP
Figure 4.50: Real interest rate (10-year annual government bond yield less inflation rate)
Figure 4.51: Real effective exchange rate
Figure 4.52: Terms of trade
Figure 4.53: Current account balance as a percentage of GDP
Figure 4.54: Net external liability, 2006
Figure 5.1: Real GDP per capita
Figure 5.2: Index of real GDP per capita
Figure 5.3: Aggregate employment growth
Figure 5.4: Mean full-time weekly salary and wage income
Figure 5.5: New Zealand and Australian diaspora
Figure 5.6: Annual net migration between Australian states and between New Zealand and Australia
Figure 5.7: Gross migration flows between Australian states and between New Zealand and Australia, 2005-2006
Figure 5.8: Value of services trade with Australia
Figure 5.9: Finance and insurance employment
Figure 5.10: Property and business services employment
Figure 5.11: Investment between Australia and New Zealand
Figure 5.12: New Zealand's net international investment position
Figure 6.1: Ranking of metropolitan regions by income, 2002
Figure 6.2: Differences in per capita GDP of metro-regions and their national level, 2002
Figure 6.3: Quality of living, 2007
Figure 6.4: Labour productivity
Figure 6.5: Productivity differences between metro-regions and their national level, 2002
Figure 6.6: Employment rate of OECD metropolitan regions
Figure 6.7: Annual average population growth rate (sample of metropolitan regions and New Zealand average)
Figure 6.8: Net permanent and long-term migration from overseas, 2006
Figure 6.9: Proportion of population moving into and out of New Zealand regions, 2001-2006
Figure 6.10: Patent applications per capita
Figure 6.11: Share of population of 15 years and more with tertiary education
Figure 6.12: Employment in medium- and high-tech manufactured good
Figure 6.13: Employment in knowledge-intensive high-tech services
Figure 6.14: Households with access to broadband in Australia and New Zealand, 2005-06
Figure 6.15: Congestion in Australian capital city areas and New Zealand urban areas
Figure 6.16: Urban population vs public transport trips per capita per annum

Tables

Table 1: Summary of key macroeconomic indicators

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