New Zealand’s coastline is 15 times as long as Algeria’s

Algeria: 998 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Algeria’s highest peak towers 2,878 m above New Zealand’s

Algeria: 2,908 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of New Zealand, versus 17% of Algeria

Algeria: 17.3% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Algeria has 8.9 times as many people as New Zealand

Algeria: 47.4 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

New Zealand is 2% more densely populated than Algeria

Algeria: 20 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 9.1 years older than in Algeria

Algeria: 28.2 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in Algeria have 1.2 more children on average than in New Zealand

Algeria: 2.72 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 6.8% in Algeria

Algeria: 6.8% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Algeria hosts 9.4 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Algeria: 3.8 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Algeria 0.4

Algeria: 0.4 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Algeria 1

Algeria: 1 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

Algeria’s economy is 9% larger than New Zealand’s

Algeria: $287 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 3.1 times as much per person as Algeria

Algeria: Int$18,586 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Unemployment is 12% in Algeria, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

Algeria: 11.6% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

Algeria spends 8.8% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

Algeria: 8.8% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

Algeria: no data · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× Algeria’s

Algeria: 33% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 22 times as much on health per person as Algeria

Algeria: $233 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Algeria is 4.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Algeria: 19.5 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 2.2 times as many doctors per person as Algeria

Algeria: 1.7 per 1,000 (2022) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

New Zealand has 56% more hospital beds per person than Algeria

Algeria: 1.6 per 1,000 (2017) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 4.1 times that in Algeria

Algeria: 3.2 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 24% in Algeria

Algeria: 24.3% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

22% of adults in Algeria smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Algeria: 22.4% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 1.28 points higher than in Algeria

Algeria: 5.71 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 21 times as much alcohol as in Algeria

Algeria: 0.4 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 3.6 times as much meat per person as Algeria

Algeria: 22.3 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

Algeria has 275 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

Algeria: 3,396 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in Algeria put in 525 more hours a year than in New Zealand

Algeria: 2,232 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 5.5 years longer than in Algeria

Algeria: 7.4 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

Algeria: no data · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Algeria has 4 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (7 against 3)

Algeria: 7 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Algeria 20

Algeria: 20 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 77% in Algeria

Algeria: 77% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 65% faster than in Algeria

Algeria: 165 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

Algeria and New Zealand are practically level

Algeria: 100% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 76% in Algeria

Algeria: 76% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Algeria 115

Algeria: 115 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 3% longer than Algeria’s

Algeria: 4,001 km (2021) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 19 times as many passengers per resident as those from Algeria

Algeria: 0.15 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 0.7% of Algeria

Algeria: 0.7% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 47% more CO₂ than someone in Algeria

Algeria: 4.2 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 1.1% in Algeria

Algeria: 1.1% (2024) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Algeria carries 2.1 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Algeria: 14.4 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 26% more likely to be murdered in New Zealand than in Algeria

Algeria: 1.2 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Algeria are 2 times as deadly as in New Zealand

Algeria: 22.3 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Algeria is on average 13.6 °C warmer than New Zealand

Algeria: 24.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 28 times as much rain as Algeria

Algeria: 58 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)