New Zealand’s coastline is 4.7 times as long as Sweden’s

New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Sweden’s highest peak towers 2,070 m above New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of New Zealand, versus 7.3% of Sweden

New Zealand: 36.8% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Sweden has 2 times as many people as New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Sweden is 29% more densely populated than New Zealand

New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 2.6 years older than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

Women in New Zealand have 0.1 more children on average than in Sweden

New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

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

New Zealand: 17.6% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 34 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, New Zealand 5.6

New Zealand: 5.6 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Sweden 1

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

Sweden’s economy is 2.5 times the size of New Zealand’s

New Zealand: $264 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 26% more per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

New Zealand: no data · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

New Zealand: no data · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.1% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

New Zealand: 1.1% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Sweden’s 27%

New Zealand: 29.5% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden and New Zealand are nearly identical here

New Zealand: 86% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 29% more on health per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: $5,022 (2024) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in New Zealand is 2 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 22% more doctors per person than New Zealand

New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

New Zealand has 32% more hospital beds per person than Sweden

New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 2% higher than in Sweden

New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

New Zealand: 34.7% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 9.3% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 0.26 points higher than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 7.00 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 2% more alcohol than in Sweden

New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 16% more meat per person than Sweden

New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 245 kcal more food per person per day than New Zealand

New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in New Zealand put in 276 more hours a year than in Sweden

New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 0.14 years longer than in Sweden

New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 5% more tourists per resident than New Zealand (2019)

New Zealand: 0.6 (2024) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 12 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (15 against 3)

New Zealand: 3 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, New Zealand 166

New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 94% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 94% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in New Zealand is 9% faster than in Sweden

New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Sweden are practically level

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 84% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 84% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, New Zealand 130

New Zealand: 130 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 2.4 times as long as New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 53% more passengers per resident than those from Sweden

New Zealand: 2.82 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 39% of New Zealand

New Zealand: 38.9% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

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

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

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 71% in Sweden

New Zealand: 88.5% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in New Zealand carries 23% more fine dust than in Sweden

New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 27% more likely to be murdered in New Zealand than in Sweden

New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in New Zealand are 3.2 times as deadly as in Sweden

New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

New Zealand is on average 6.8 °C warmer than Sweden

New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 2 times as much rain as Sweden

New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)