New Zealand’s coastline is 67 times as long as Romania’s

New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition) · Romania: 225 km (2026 edition)

Romania’s highest peak towers 2,514 m above New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition) · Romania: 2,544 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Romania, versus 37% of New Zealand

New Zealand: 36.8% (2024) · Romania: 55.2% (2024)

Romania has 3.6 times as many people as New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025) · Romania: 19 million (2025)

Romania is 4.1 times as densely populated as New Zealand

New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025) · Romania: 83 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Romania is 5.3 years older than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023) · Romania: 42.6 years (2023)

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

New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024) · Romania: 1.39 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Romania are 65 or older, versus 18% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 17.6% (2025) · Romania: 20.1% (2025)

Romania hosts 27 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Romania: 10.9 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Romania 2.1

New Zealand: 5.6 (2026) · Romania: 2.1 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Romania 1

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

Romania’s economy is 62% larger than New Zealand’s

New Zealand: $264 billion (2025) · Romania: $429 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 13% more per person than Romania

New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025) · Romania: Int$50,895 (2025)

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

New Zealand: no data · Romania: 0.7% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Romania, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.1% (2025) · Romania: 6% (2025)

Romania spends 2.3% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

New Zealand: 1.1% (2025) · Romania: 2.3% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Romania’s 16%

New Zealand: 29.5% (2024) · Romania: 16.2% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Romania’s

New Zealand: 86% (2025) · Romania: 44% (2025)

New Zealand spends 4.8 times as much on health per person as Romania

New Zealand: $5,022 (2024) · Romania: $1,051 (2023)

A baby in Romania is 50% more likely to die before turning one than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024) · Romania: 6 per 1,000 (2024)

Romania and New Zealand are nearly identical here

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

Romania has 2.9 times as many hospital beds per person as New Zealand

New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Romania: 7.2 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 59% higher than in Romania

New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 8.2 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Romania are obese, versus 35% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 34.7% (2024) · Romania: 37.7% (2024)

30% of adults in Romania smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 9.3% (2024) · Romania: 29.7% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 0.37 points higher than in Romania

New Zealand: 7.00 (2025) · Romania: 6.63 (2025)

Adults in Romania drink 93% more alcohol than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023) · Romania: 17.1 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 10% more meat per person than Romania

New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023) · Romania: 72.5 kg (2023)

Romania has 527 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023) · Romania: 3,649 kcal (2023)

Workers in Romania put in 118 more hours a year than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023) · Romania: 1,826 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 1.3 years longer than in Romania

New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023) · Romania: 11.6 years (2023)

Romania welcomed 17% more tourists per resident than New Zealand (2019)

New Zealand: 0.6 (2024) · Romania: 0.7 (2024)

Romania has 8 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (11 against 3)

New Zealand: 3 (2026) · Romania: 11 (2026)

Romania has won 318 Olympic medals, New Zealand 166

New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition) · Romania: 318 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 91% in Romania

New Zealand: 94% (2024) · Romania: 91% (2024)

Home internet in Romania is 17% faster than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026) · Romania: 316 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Romania are practically level

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

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 52% in Romania

New Zealand: 84% (2025) · Romania: 52% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Romania 120

New Zealand: 130 (2024) · Romania: 120 (2024)

Romania’s railway network is 2.6 times as long as New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018) · Romania: 10,769 km (2021)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 19 times as many passengers per resident as those from Romania

New Zealand: 2.82 (2023) · Romania: 0.15 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 30% of Romania

New Zealand: 38.9% (2024) · Romania: 30.2% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 73% more CO₂ than someone in Romania

New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024) · Romania: 3.6 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 47% in Romania

New Zealand: 88.5% (2025) · Romania: 47% (2025)

The air in Romania carries 2 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024) · Romania: 14.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 30% more likely to be murdered in New Zealand than in Romania

New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022) · Romania: 1.1 per 100k (2024)

Roads in Romania are 25% deadlier than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 13.6 per 100k (2023)

New Zealand is on average 0.1 °C warmer than Romania

New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Romania: 11°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 2.1 times as much rain as Romania

New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Romania: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg)