New Zealand’s coastline is 261 times as long as Iraq’s

Iraq: 58 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Iraq’s highest peak towers 3,581 m above New Zealand’s

Iraq: 3,611 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of New Zealand, versus 22% of Iraq

Iraq: 21.6% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Iraq has 8.8 times as many people as New Zealand

Iraq: 47 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Iraq is 5.4 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Iraq: 108 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 17 years older than in Iraq

Iraq: 20.3 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in Iraq have 1.7 more children on average than in New Zealand

Iraq: 3.22 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 3.4% in Iraq

Iraq: 3.4% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Iraq hosts 17 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Iraq: 6.9 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Iraq 0.2

Iraq: 0.2 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

Iraq and New Zealand are practically level

Iraq: 3 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand’s economy is 4% larger than Iraq’s

Iraq: $254 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 4 times as much per person as Iraq

Iraq: Int$14,267 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Iraq: 29.8 (2023) · New Zealand: no data

Iraq: 0.5% (2023) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 15% in Iraq, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

Iraq: 15.5% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

Iraq spends 2.4% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

Iraq: 2.4% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Iraq’s 1.3%

Iraq: 1.3% (2019) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 2.3× Iraq’s

Iraq: 38% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 15 times as much on health per person as Iraq

Iraq: $333 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Iraq is 5 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Iraq: 20.1 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 3.5 times as many doctors per person as Iraq

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

New Zealand has 2.4 times as many hospital beds per person as Iraq

Iraq: 1.1 per 1,000 (2018) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 2.5 times that in Iraq

Iraq: 5.1 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

37% of adults in Iraq are obese, versus 35% in New Zealand

Iraq: 36.8% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Iraq smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Iraq: 20.1% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 1.78 points higher than in Iraq

Iraq: 5.21 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 14 times as much alcohol as in Iraq

Iraq: 0.6 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 3.8 times as much meat per person as Iraq

Iraq: 21.1 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

New Zealand has 751 kcal more food per person per day than Iraq

Iraq: 2,371 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in New Zealand put in 124 more hours a year than in Iraq

Iraq: 1,583 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 6.1 years longer than in Iraq

Iraq: 6.8 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

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

Iraq has 3 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (6 against 3)

Iraq: 6 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Iraq 1

Iraq: 1 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 81% in Iraq

Iraq: 81% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 4.4 times as fast as in Iraq

Iraq: 62 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

Iraq and New Zealand are practically level

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

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 70% in Iraq

Iraq: 70% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Iraq 100

Iraq: 100 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 74% longer than Iraq’s

Iraq: 2,370 km (2014) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 35 times as many passengers per resident as those from Iraq

Iraq: 0.08 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 1.6% of Iraq

Iraq: 1.6% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 23% more CO₂ than someone in Iraq

Iraq: 5.1 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 1.6% in Iraq

Iraq: 1.6% (2024) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Iraq carries 7 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Iraq: 48.8 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

Iraq: no data · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Iraq are 2.9 times as deadly as in New Zealand

Iraq: 31.5 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Iraq is on average 12.8 °C warmer than New Zealand

Iraq: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 7.5 times as much rain as Iraq

Iraq: 214 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)