New Zealand’s coastline is 8.4 times as long as Portugal’s

New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition) · Portugal: 1,793 km (2026 edition)

Portugal’s highest peak towers 2,321 m above New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition) · Portugal: 2,351 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 41% of Portugal, versus 37% of New Zealand

New Zealand: 36.8% (2024) · Portugal: 41.3% (2024)

Portugal has 2 times as many people as New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025) · Portugal: 10.8 million (2025)

Portugal is 5.8 times as densely populated as New Zealand

New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025) · Portugal: 118 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Portugal is 8.9 years older than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023) · Portugal: 46.2 years (2023)

Women in New Zealand have 0.2 more children on average than in Portugal

New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024) · Portugal: 1.41 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Portugal are 65 or older, versus 18% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 17.6% (2025) · Portugal: 24.9% (2025)

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

New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Portugal: 6.5 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Portugal 1.9

New Zealand: 5.6 (2026) · Portugal: 1.9 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Portugal 1

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

Portugal’s economy is 31% larger than New Zealand’s

New Zealand: $264 billion (2025) · Portugal: $347 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 8% more per person than Portugal

New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025) · Portugal: Int$53,146 (2025)

New Zealand: no data · Portugal: 33.9 (2023)

New Zealand: no data · Portugal: 0.4% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.2% in Portugal, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.1% (2025) · Portugal: 6.2% (2025)

Portugal spends 1.7% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

New Zealand: 1.1% (2025) · Portugal: 1.7% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Portugal’s 22%

New Zealand: 29.5% (2024) · Portugal: 22.3% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 1.4× Portugal’s

New Zealand: 86% (2025) · Portugal: 60% (2025)

New Zealand spends 69% more on health per person than Portugal

New Zealand: $5,022 (2024) · Portugal: $2,971 (2024)

A baby in New Zealand is 48% more likely to die before turning one than in Portugal

New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024) · Portugal: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Portugal has 62% more doctors per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Portugal: 5.9 per 1,000 (2022)

Portugal has 39% more hospital beds per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Portugal: 3.5 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 51% higher than in Portugal

New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023) · Portugal: 8.6 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 23% in Portugal

New Zealand: 34.7% (2024) · Portugal: 23% (2024)

29% of adults in Portugal smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 9.3% (2024) · Portugal: 28.6% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 0.97 points higher than in Portugal

New Zealand: 7.00 (2025) · Portugal: 6.03 (2025)

Adults in Portugal drink 55% more alcohol than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023) · Portugal: 13.7 litres (2023)

Portugal has 25% more meat per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023) · Portugal: 99.3 kg (2023)

Portugal has 431 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023) · Portugal: 3,553 kcal (2023)

Workers in Portugal put in 27 more hours a year than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023) · Portugal: 1,735 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 3.2 years longer than in Portugal

New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023) · Portugal: 9.7 years (2023)

Portugal welcomed 4.5 times as many tourists per resident as New Zealand (2019)

New Zealand: 0.6 (2024) · Portugal: 2.71 (2024)

Portugal has 14 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (17 against 3)

New Zealand: 3 (2026) · Portugal: 17 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Portugal 32

New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition) · Portugal: 32 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 88% in Portugal

New Zealand: 94% (2024) · Portugal: 88% (2024)

Home internet in Portugal is 21% faster than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026) · Portugal: 330 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Portugal are practically level

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

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 61% in Portugal

New Zealand: 84% (2025) · Portugal: 61% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Portugal 124

New Zealand: 130 (2024) · Portugal: 124 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 63% longer than Portugal’s

New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018) · Portugal: 2,527 km (2021)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 67% more passengers per resident than those from Portugal

New Zealand: 2.82 (2023) · Portugal: 1.69 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 37% of Portugal

New Zealand: 38.9% (2024) · Portugal: 36.6% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 83% more CO₂ than someone in Portugal

New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024) · Portugal: 3.4 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 81% in Portugal

New Zealand: 88.5% (2025) · Portugal: 81% (2025)

The air in Portugal carries 50% more fine dust than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024) · Portugal: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2 times as likely to be murdered in New Zealand as in Portugal

New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022) · Portugal: 0.7 per 100k (2022)

Portugal and New Zealand are nearly identical here

New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023) · Portugal: 11 per 100k (2023)

Portugal is on average 4.8 °C warmer than New Zealand

New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Portugal: 15.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 2.1 times as much rain as Portugal

New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Portugal: 777 mm (2016–2025 avg)