New Zealand’s coastline is 11% longer than Greece’s

Greece: 13,676 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Greece’s highest peak towers 2,887 m above New Zealand’s

Greece: 2,917 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 39% of Greece, versus 37% of New Zealand

Greece: 38.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Greece has 2 times as many people as New Zealand

Greece: 10.4 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Greece is 4 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Greece: 81 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Greece is 8.5 years older than in New Zealand

Greece: 45.7 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in New Zealand have 0.3 more children on average than in Greece

Greece: 1.24 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

24% of people in Greece are 65 or older, versus 18% in New Zealand

Greece: 24.4% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Greece hosts 32 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Greece: 12.9 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Greece 1.0

Greece: 1 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Greece 1

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

Greece’s economy is 6% larger than New Zealand’s

Greece: $281 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 27% more per person than Greece

Greece: Int$45,264 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Greece: 33.4 (2023) · New Zealand: no data

Greece: 0.6% (2023) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 8.5% in Greece, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

Greece: 8.5% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

Greece spends 3.0% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

Greece: 3% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Greece’s 27%

Greece: 27.4% (2024) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 1.5× Greece’s

Greece: 60% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 2.6 times as much on health per person as Greece

Greece: $1,963 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in New Zealand is 25% more likely to die before turning one than in Greece

Greece: 3.2 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

Greece has 82% more doctors per person than New Zealand

Greece: 6.6 per 1,000 (2022) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Greece has 70% more hospital beds per person than New Zealand

Greece: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 3.3 times that in Greece

Greece: 3.9 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 34% in Greece

Greece: 33.7% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

30% of adults in Greece smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Greece: 30.2% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 1.30 points higher than in Greece

Greece: 5.70 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 3% more alcohol than in Greece

Greece: 8.6 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

Greece has 3% more meat per person than New Zealand

Greece: 82 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

Greece has 260 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

Greece: 3,382 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in Greece put in 186 more hours a year than in New Zealand

Greece: 1,893 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 1.3 years longer than in Greece

Greece: 11.6 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

Greece welcomed 4.4 times as many tourists per resident as New Zealand (2019)

Greece: 2.67 (2022) · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Greece has 18 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (21 against 3)

Greece: 21 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Greece 129

Greece: 129 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 86% in Greece

Greece: 86% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 46% faster than in Greece

Greece: 186 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

Greece and New Zealand are practically level

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

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 79% in Greece

Greece: 79% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Greece 114

Greece: 114 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 76% longer than Greece’s

Greece: 2,339 km (2021) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 54% more passengers per resident than those from Greece

Greece: 1.83 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 37% of Greece

Greece: 36.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 17% more CO₂ than someone in Greece

Greece: 5.3 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 50% in Greece

Greece: 49.7% (2025) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

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

Greece: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 74% more likely to be murdered in New Zealand than in Greece

Greece: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

New Zealand and Greece are nearly identical here

Greece: 10.8 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Greece is on average 4.6 °C warmer than New Zealand

Greece: 15.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 2 times as much rain as Greece

Greece: 800 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)