CountryDuel

Land

Size, shape and altitude

Total area

How big is it, really?

Ivory Coast is 20% bigger than New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 322,460 km² (2024) · New Zealand: 267,710 km² (2024)

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Coastline

How much coast is there?

New Zealand’s coastline is 29 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 515 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Highest point

How high can you climb?

Ivory Coast’s highest peak towers 1,722 m above New Zealand’s

Ivory Coast: 1,752 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland

How much of the land is farmed?

Farmland covers 84% of Ivory Coast, versus 37% of New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 83.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

How far apart are they?

People

Who lives there, and how closely

Population

How many people live there?

Ivory Coast has 6.1 times as many people as New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 32.7 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Population density

How crowded is it?

Ivory Coast is 5.1 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 103 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

Height of men

How tall are the men?

Men in New Zealand are 9.5 cm taller than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 168.2 cm (2019) · New Zealand: 177.7 cm (2019)

Height of women

How tall are the women?

Women in New Zealand are 6.0 cm taller than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 158.7 cm (2019) · New Zealand: 164.7 cm (2019)

Median age

How old is the typical person?

The typical person in New Zealand is 19 years older than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 18.1 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Fertility rate

How many children per woman?

Women in Ivory Coast have 2.7 more children on average than in New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 4.23 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

Aged 65 and over

How many people are 65 or older?

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 2.7% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.7% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Refugees hosted per 1,000 residents

How many refugees does it host?

Ivory Coast hosts 5.7 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 2.3 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Nobel laureates per 10 million people

How many Nobel laureates were born there?

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ivory Coast none

Ivory Coast: 0 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

Official languages

How many official languages?

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Ivory Coast 1

Ivory Coast: 1 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

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Money

What an economy looks like per person

Economy size (GDP)

How big is the economy?

New Zealand’s economy is 2.6 times the size of Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: $99.8 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

GDP per person (PPP)

How much is produced per person?

New Zealand produces 7 times as much per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: Int$8,209 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Income inequality (Gini)

How evenly is income shared?

Ivory Coast: 35.3 (2021) · New Zealand: no data

Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day)

How many live on less than $3 a day?

Ivory Coast: 20.8% (2021) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment

How many people are looking for work?

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 2.3% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.3% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

Military spending

How much goes to the military?

New Zealand and Ivory Coast are practically level

Ivory Coast: 0.8% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

Tax revenue (central government)

How much does the central government collect in tax?

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Ivory Coast’s 13%

Ivory Coast: 13% (2023) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

Price level (US = 100)

How expensive is it?

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

Ivory Coast: 37% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

Health

Long lives, small beginnings

Health spending per person

How much is spent on health?

New Zealand spends 57 times as much on health per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: $88 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

Life expectancy

How long do people live?

People in New Zealand live 20 years longer than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 62.1 years (2024) · New Zealand: 82 years (2024)

Infant mortality

How many babies don’t reach their first birthday?

A baby in Ivory Coast is 11 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 44.8 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

Doctors

How many doctors are there?

New Zealand has 22 times as many doctors per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.2 per 1,000 (2023) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Hospital beds

How many hospital beds are there?

Ivory Coast: no data · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

Suicide rate

How common is suicide?

The suicide rate in Ivory Coast is 27% higher than in New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 16.5 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

Adult obesity

How common is obesity?

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

Ivory Coast: 12% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

Smoking

How many adults smoke?

9.3% of adults in New Zealand smoke, versus 7.3% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 7.3% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

Everyday life

Plates, glasses and happiness

Life satisfaction

How do people rate their lives?

People in New Zealand rate their lives 1.85 points higher than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 5.15 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Alcohol consumption

How much do people drink?

Adults in New Zealand drink 2.1 times as much alcohol as in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 4.2 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

Meat supply

How much meat is on the menu?

New Zealand has 6.6 times as much meat per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

Daily calories

How much food is there per day?

New Zealand has 184 kcal more food per person per day than Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2,938 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Working hours

How long do people work?

Workers in Ivory Coast put in 396 more hours a year than in New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 2,103 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Years of schooling

How long do people go to school?

Adults in New Zealand went to school 8 years longer than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 4.9 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

Tourists per resident

How many tourists visit?

Ivory Coast: no data · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

World Heritage sites

How many World Heritage sites?

Ivory Coast has 2 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (5 against 3)

Ivory Coast: 5 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

Olympic medals (all time)

How many Olympic medals has it won?

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Ivory Coast 5

Ivory Coast: 5 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

Connected

Online, electrified, urban

Internet users

How many people are online?

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 41% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 41% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Fixed broadband download speed

How fast is home internet?

Home internet in New Zealand is 3.2 times as fast as in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 85 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

Access to electricity

Who has electricity at home?

100% of people in New Zealand have electricity, versus 73% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 72.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

Urban population

How many live in cities?

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 55% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 55% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

Mobile subscriptions

How many phones per person?

Ivory Coast has 184 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, New Zealand 130

Ivory Coast: 184 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

Railway network

How much railway is there?

New Zealand’s railway network is 6.5 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 639 km (2021) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Air passengers per resident

How much do they fly?

Airlines from New Zealand fly 129 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.02 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Planet

Air, forests and energy

Forest cover

How much of the land is forest?

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 12% of Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12.1% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

CO₂ per person

How much CO₂ does each person emit?

The average person in New Zealand emits 13 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.5 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

Renewable electricity

How green is the power grid?

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 29% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 28.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

Air pollution (PM2.5)

How clean is the air?

The air in Ivory Coast carries 2.9 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

Where does the power come from?

Safety

Measured risk, not vibes

Homicide rate

How common is murder?

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

Road deaths

How dangerous are the roads?

Roads in Ivory Coast are 2.8 times as deadly as in New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 30.9 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Climate

What the year feels like

Average temperature

How warm is it?

Ivory Coast is on average 15.7 °C warmer than New Zealand

Ivory Coast: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Rainfall

How much rain falls?

New Zealand gets 30% more rain than Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 1,226 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)

What does the year feel like?

Between them

People, goods and passports that cross from one to the other

Who has moved between them?
Can they visit without a visa?
What do they sell each other?
Have they met on the pitch?
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Quick answers

Is Ivory Coast bigger than New Zealand?

Ivory Coast is larger. Ivory Coast is 20% bigger than New Zealand.

Which has more people, Ivory Coast or New Zealand?

Ivory Coast has 6.1 times as many people as New Zealand (2025 estimates).

Where do people live longer, Ivory Coast or New Zealand?

People in New Zealand live 20 years longer than in Ivory Coast. Life expectancy at birth is 62.1 years in Ivory Coast and 82.0 in New Zealand.

Are people taller in Ivory Coast or New Zealand?

Men in New Zealand are 9.5 cm taller than in Ivory Coast (NCD-RisC, cohort born 2019).

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