New Zealand’s coastline is 34 times as long as Poland’s

New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition) · Poland: 440 km (2026 edition)

Poland’s highest peak towers 2,469 m above New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition) · Poland: 2,499 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 46% of Poland, versus 37% of New Zealand

New Zealand: 36.8% (2024) · Poland: 46.2% (2024)

Poland has 6.8 times as many people as New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025) · Poland: 36.4 million (2025)

Poland is 5.9 times as densely populated as New Zealand

New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025) · Poland: 119 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Poland is 4 years older than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023) · Poland: 41.3 years (2023)

Women in New Zealand have 0.4 more children on average than in Poland

New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024) · Poland: 1.14 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Poland are 65 or older, versus 18% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 17.6% (2025) · Poland: 20.8% (2025)

Poland hosts 67 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Poland: 27.2 per 1,000 (2025)

Poland has produced 7.7 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, New Zealand 5.6

New Zealand: 5.6 (2026) · Poland: 7.7 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Poland 1

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

Poland’s economy is 3.9 times the size of New Zealand’s

New Zealand: $264 billion (2025) · Poland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

New Zealand produces 6% more per person than Poland

New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025) · Poland: Int$54,262 (2025)

New Zealand: no data · Poland: 28.5 (2023)

New Zealand: no data · Poland: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 3.0% in Poland

New Zealand: 5.1% (2025) · Poland: 3% (2025)

Poland spends 4.5% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

New Zealand: 1.1% (2025) · Poland: 4.5% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Poland’s 17%

New Zealand: 29.5% (2024) · Poland: 17.4% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× Poland’s

New Zealand: 86% (2025) · Poland: 52% (2025)

New Zealand spends 2.5 times as much on health per person as Poland

New Zealand: $5,022 (2024) · Poland: $2,014 (2024)

A baby in New Zealand is 11% more likely to die before turning one than in Poland

New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024) · Poland: 3.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Poland has 12% more doctors per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Poland: 4 per 1,000 (2023)

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

New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Poland: 6 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Poland is 3% higher than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023) · Poland: 13.4 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 26% in Poland

New Zealand: 34.7% (2024) · Poland: 25.9% (2024)

22% of adults in Poland smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 9.3% (2024) · Poland: 21.7% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 0.23 points higher than in Poland

New Zealand: 7.00 (2025) · Poland: 6.77 (2025)

Adults in Poland drink 30% more alcohol than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023) · Poland: 11.5 litres (2023)

Poland has 5% more meat per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023) · Poland: 83.3 kg (2023)

Poland has 609 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023) · Poland: 3,730 kcal (2023)

Workers in Poland put in 99 more hours a year than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023) · Poland: 1,807 hours (2023)

Adults in Poland went to school 0.33 years longer than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023) · Poland: 13.2 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 11% more tourists per resident than Poland (2019)

New Zealand: 0.6 (2024) · Poland: 0.54 (2024)

Poland has 15 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (18 against 3)

New Zealand: 3 (2026) · Poland: 18 (2026)

Poland has won 335 Olympic medals, New Zealand 166

New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition) · Poland: 335 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 89% in Poland

New Zealand: 94% (2024) · Poland: 89% (2024)

Home internet in Poland is 6% faster than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026) · Poland: 288 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Poland are practically level

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

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 60% in Poland

New Zealand: 84% (2025) · Poland: 60% (2025)

Poland has 138 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, New Zealand 130

New Zealand: 130 (2024) · Poland: 138 (2024)

Poland’s railway network is 4.5 times as long as New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018) · Poland: 18,620 km (2021)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 12 times as many passengers per resident as those from Poland

New Zealand: 2.82 (2023) · Poland: 0.24 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 31% of Poland

New Zealand: 38.9% (2024) · Poland: 31% (2024)

The average person in Poland emits 14% more CO₂ than someone in New Zealand

New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024) · Poland: 7.1 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 32% in Poland

New Zealand: 88.5% (2025) · Poland: 31.5% (2025)

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

New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024) · Poland: 15.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 82% more likely to be murdered in New Zealand than in Poland

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

Roads in Poland are 6% deadlier than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023) · Poland: 11.5 per 100k (2023)

New Zealand is on average 1.4 °C warmer than Poland

New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Poland: 9.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 2.1 times as much rain as Poland

New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Poland: 763 mm (2016–2025 avg)