Indonesia’s coastline is 3.6 times as long as New Zealand’s

Indonesia: 54,716 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Indonesia’s highest peak towers 4,854 m above New Zealand’s

Indonesia: 4,884 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of New Zealand, versus 29% of Indonesia

Indonesia: 28.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Indonesia has 54 times as many people as New Zealand

Indonesia: 286 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Indonesia is 7.5 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Indonesia: 151 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 7.4 years older than in Indonesia

Indonesia: 29.8 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in Indonesia have 0.5 more children on average than in New Zealand

Indonesia: 2.12 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 7.5% in Indonesia

Indonesia: 7.5% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

New Zealand hosts 16 times as many refugees per resident as Indonesia

Indonesia: 0.026 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

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

Indonesia: 0.035 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Indonesia 1

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

Indonesia’s economy is 5.5 times the size of New Zealand’s

Indonesia: $1.45 trillion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 3.2 times as much per person as Indonesia

Indonesia: Int$17,660 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Indonesia: 34.4 (2025) · New Zealand: no data

Indonesia: 3.7% (2025) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 3.2% in Indonesia

Indonesia: 3.2% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

New Zealand and Indonesia are practically level

Indonesia: 1% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

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

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 3× Indonesia’s

Indonesia: 29% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 38 times as much on health per person as Indonesia

Indonesia: $132 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Indonesia is 3.8 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Indonesia: 15.2 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 6.9 times as many doctors per person as Indonesia

Indonesia: 0.5 per 1,000 (2023) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

New Zealand has 83% more hospital beds per person than Indonesia

Indonesia: 1.4 per 1,000 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 5.9 times that in Indonesia

Indonesia: 2.2 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 12% in Indonesia

Indonesia: 12% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

31% of adults in Indonesia smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Indonesia: 31% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 1.38 points higher than in Indonesia

Indonesia: 5.62 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 88 times as much alcohol as in Indonesia

Indonesia: 0.1 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 4 times as much meat per person as Indonesia

Indonesia: 20 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

New Zealand has 221 kcal more food per person per day than Indonesia

Indonesia: 2,900 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in Indonesia put in 251 more hours a year than in New Zealand

Indonesia: 1,958 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 4.2 years longer than in Indonesia

Indonesia: 8.7 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 13 times as many tourists per resident as Indonesia (2019)

Indonesia: 0.05 (2024) · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Indonesia has 7 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (10 against 3)

Indonesia: 10 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Indonesia 40

Indonesia: 40 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 73% in Indonesia

Indonesia: 73% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 3.3 times as fast as in Indonesia

Indonesia: 82 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Indonesia are practically level

Indonesia: 99.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 59% in Indonesia

Indonesia: 59% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Indonesia 123

Indonesia: 123 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

Indonesia’s railway network is 33% longer than New Zealand’s

Indonesia: 5,483 km (2019) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 8.3 times as many passengers per resident as those from Indonesia

Indonesia: 0.34 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 51% of Indonesia, but only 39% of New Zealand

Indonesia: 50.7% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 2.2 times as much CO₂ as someone in Indonesia

Indonesia: 2.9 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 18% in Indonesia

Indonesia: 18.1% (2024) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Indonesia carries 2.6 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Indonesia: 18.5 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.8 times as likely to be murdered in New Zealand as in Indonesia

Indonesia: 0.3 per 100k (2022) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Indonesia are 60% deadlier than in New Zealand

Indonesia: 17.4 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Indonesia is on average 14.5 °C warmer than New Zealand

Indonesia: 25.6°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Indonesia gets 2.2 times as much rain as New Zealand

Indonesia: 3,437 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)