New Zealand’s coastline is 62% longer than Mexico’s

Mexico: 9,330 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Mexico’s highest peak towers 5,606 m above New Zealand’s

Mexico: 5,636 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 51% of Mexico, versus 37% of New Zealand

Mexico: 50.6% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Mexico has 25 times as many people as New Zealand

Mexico: 132 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Mexico is 3.4 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Mexico: 68 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 8.4 years older than in Mexico

Mexico: 28.9 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

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

Mexico: 1.89 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 8.5% in Mexico

Mexico: 8.5% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Mexico hosts 2.9 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Mexico: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Mexico 1

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

Mexico’s economy is 6.9 times the size of New Zealand’s

Mexico: $1.83 trillion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 2.2 times as much per person as Mexico

Mexico: Int$25,869 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Mexico: 42.6 (2024) · New Zealand: no data

Mexico: 1.6% (2024) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 2.7% in Mexico

Mexico: 2.7% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

New Zealand and Mexico are practically level

Mexico: 0.7% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

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

Mexico: 14.8% (2024) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 1.6× Mexico’s

Mexico: 54% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 6.6 times as much on health per person as Mexico

Mexico: $761 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Mexico is 3 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Mexico: 12.1 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 40% more doctors per person than Mexico

Mexico: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

New Zealand has 2.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Mexico

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

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 49% higher than in Mexico

Mexico: 8.7 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

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

Mexico: 37.4% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

16% of adults in Mexico smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Mexico: 15.7% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

New Zealand and Mexico are practically level

Mexico: 6.97 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 32% more alcohol than in Mexico

Mexico: 6.7 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 2% more meat per person than Mexico

Mexico: 78.2 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

Mexico has 183 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

Mexico: 3,305 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in New Zealand put in 79 more hours a year than in Mexico

Mexico: 1,629 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 3.5 years longer than in Mexico

Mexico: 9.3 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 74% more tourists per resident than Mexico (2019)

Mexico: 0.34 (2024) · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Mexico has 33 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (36 against 3)

Mexico: 36 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Mexico 77

Mexico: 77 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 83% in Mexico

Mexico: 83% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 79% faster than in Mexico

Mexico: 152 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Mexico are practically level

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

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 80% in Mexico

Mexico: 80% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Mexico 116

Mexico: 116 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

Mexico’s railway network is 5.7 times as long as New Zealand’s

Mexico: 23,389 km (2017) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 4.7 times as many passengers per resident as those from Mexico

Mexico: 0.6 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 34% of Mexico

Mexico: 34.2% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 77% more CO₂ than someone in Mexico

Mexico: 3.5 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in Mexico

Mexico: 23.1% (2025) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

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

Mexico: 18.3 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 17 times as likely to be murdered in Mexico as in New Zealand

Mexico: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Mexico are 75% deadlier than in New Zealand

Mexico: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Mexico is on average 10.3 °C warmer than New Zealand

Mexico: 21.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 2 times as much rain as Mexico

Mexico: 788 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)