New Zealand’s coastline is 2 times as long as Brazil’s

Brazil: 7,491 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Brazil’s highest peak towers 2,964 m above New Zealand’s

Brazil: 2,994 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of New Zealand, versus 28% of Brazil

Brazil: 28.4% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Brazil has 40 times as many people as New Zealand

Brazil: 213 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Brazil is 26% more densely populated than New Zealand

Brazil: 25 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 3.3 years older than in Brazil

Brazil: 33.9 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Brazil and New Zealand are practically level

Brazil: 1.61 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 11% in Brazil

Brazil: 11.5% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Brazil hosts 3.2 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Brazil: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Brazil 0.0

Brazil: 0.047 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Brazil 1

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

Brazil’s economy is 8.6 times the size of New Zealand’s

Brazil: $2.28 trillion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 2.4 times as much per person as Brazil

Brazil: Int$23,433 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Brazil: 50.3 (2024) · New Zealand: no data

Brazil: 3% (2024) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 6.0% in Brazil, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

Brazil: 6% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

New Zealand and Brazil are practically level

Brazil: 1.1% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Brazil’s 15%

Brazil: 15.4% (2024) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× Brazil’s

Brazil: 46% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 5 times as much on health per person as Brazil

Brazil: $1,010 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Brazil is 3.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Brazil: 12.3 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 53% more doctors per person than Brazil

Brazil: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Brazil and New Zealand are nearly identical here

Brazil: 2.5 per 1,000 (2021) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 48% higher than in Brazil

Brazil: 8.8 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 31% in Brazil

Brazil: 30.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

12% of adults in Brazil smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Brazil: 11.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 0.36 points higher than in Brazil

Brazil: 6.63 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in Brazil drink 17% more alcohol than in New Zealand

Brazil: 10.4 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

Brazil has 31% more meat per person than New Zealand

Brazil: 104.6 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

Brazil has 302 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

Brazil: 3,423 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in Brazil put in 286 more hours a year than in New Zealand

Brazil: 1,994 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 4.5 years longer than in Brazil

Brazil: 8.4 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 19 times as many tourists per resident as Brazil (2019)

Brazil: 0.03 (2024) · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Brazil has 23 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (26 against 3)

Brazil: 26 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

Brazil has won 171 Olympic medals, New Zealand 166

Brazil: 171 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 84% in Brazil

Brazil: 84% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in Brazil is 8% faster than in New Zealand

Brazil: 293 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Brazil are practically level

Brazil: 99.8% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

88% of people in Brazil live in cities, versus 84% in New Zealand

Brazil: 88% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Brazil 102

Brazil: 102 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

Brazil’s railway network is 7.2 times as long as New Zealand’s

Brazil: 29,850 km (2014) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 6.3 times as many passengers per resident as those from Brazil

Brazil: 0.45 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 59% of Brazil, but only 39% of New Zealand

Brazil: 58.5% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 2.7 times as much CO₂ as someone in Brazil

Brazil: 2.3 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 87% in Brazil

Brazil: 86.6% (2025) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Brazil carries 2.2 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Brazil: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 13 times as likely to be murdered in Brazil as in New Zealand

Brazil: 19.3 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Brazil are 2.4 times as deadly as in New Zealand

Brazil: 25.9 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Brazil is on average 14.2 °C warmer than New Zealand

Brazil: 25.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Brazil gets 4% more rain than New Zealand

Brazil: 1,661 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)