New Zealand’s coastline is 4.4 times as long as Vietnam’s

New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition) · Vietnam: 3,444 km (2026 edition)

Vietnam’s highest peak towers 3,114 m above New Zealand’s

New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition) · Vietnam: 3,144 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 39% of Vietnam, versus 37% of New Zealand

New Zealand: 36.8% (2024) · Vietnam: 39.2% (2024)

Vietnam has 19 times as many people as New Zealand

New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025) · Vietnam: 102 million (2025)

Vietnam is 16 times as densely populated as New Zealand

New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025) · Vietnam: 324 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 4.9 years older than in Vietnam

New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023) · Vietnam: 32.4 years (2023)

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

New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024) · Vietnam: 1.9 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 9.5% in Vietnam

New Zealand: 17.6% (2025) · Vietnam: 9.5% (2025)

New Zealand hosts 3,153 times as many refugees per resident as Vietnam

New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Vietnam: 0.00013 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Vietnam 0.1

New Zealand: 5.6 (2026) · Vietnam: 0.1 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Vietnam 1

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

Vietnam’s economy is 95% larger than New Zealand’s

New Zealand: $264 billion (2025) · Vietnam: $515 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 3.2 times as much per person as Vietnam

New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025) · Vietnam: Int$18,089 (2025)

New Zealand: no data · Vietnam: 36.1 (2022)

New Zealand: no data · Vietnam: 1.6% (2022)

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 1.5% in Vietnam

New Zealand: 5.1% (2025) · Vietnam: 1.5% (2025)

Vietnam spends 2.2% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

New Zealand: 1.1% (2025) · Vietnam: 2.2% (2025)

New Zealand: 29.5% (2024) · Vietnam: no data

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 3.1× Vietnam’s

New Zealand: 86% (2025) · Vietnam: 28% (2025)

New Zealand spends 25 times as much on health per person as Vietnam

New Zealand: $5,022 (2024) · Vietnam: $197 (2023)

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

New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024) · Vietnam: 12 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 3.3 times as many doctors per person as Vietnam

New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Vietnam: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021)

Vietnam and New Zealand are nearly identical here

New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Vietnam: 2.5 per 1,000 (2017)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 30% higher than in Vietnam

New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023) · Vietnam: 10 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 2.5% in Vietnam

New Zealand: 34.7% (2024) · Vietnam: 2.5% (2024)

21% of adults in Vietnam smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

New Zealand: 9.3% (2024) · Vietnam: 21.1% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 0.57 points higher than in Vietnam

New Zealand: 7.00 (2025) · Vietnam: 6.43 (2025)

Adults in Vietnam drink 21% more alcohol than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023) · Vietnam: 10.7 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 32% more meat per person than Vietnam

New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023) · Vietnam: 60.5 kg (2023)

New Zealand has 35 kcal more food per person per day than Vietnam

New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023) · Vietnam: 3,086 kcal (2023)

Workers in Vietnam put in 453 more hours a year than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023) · Vietnam: 2,160 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 3.9 years longer than in Vietnam

New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023) · Vietnam: 9 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 7.4 times as many tourists per resident as Vietnam (2019)

New Zealand: 0.6 (2024) · Vietnam: 0.08 (2015)

Vietnam has 6 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (9 against 3)

New Zealand: 3 (2026) · Vietnam: 9 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Vietnam 5

New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition) · Vietnam: 5 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 84% in Vietnam

New Zealand: 94% (2024) · Vietnam: 84% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 12% faster than in Vietnam

New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026) · Vietnam: 244 Mbps (2026)

New Zealand and Vietnam are practically level

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

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 39% in Vietnam

New Zealand: 84% (2025) · Vietnam: 39% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Vietnam 128

New Zealand: 130 (2024) · Vietnam: 128 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 31% longer than Vietnam’s

New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018) · Vietnam: 3,159 km (2021)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 5.2 times as many passengers per resident as those from Vietnam

New Zealand: 2.82 (2023) · Vietnam: 0.54 (2023)

Forest covers 47% of Vietnam, but only 39% of New Zealand

New Zealand: 38.9% (2024) · Vietnam: 47.1% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 70% more CO₂ than someone in Vietnam

New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024) · Vietnam: 3.7 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 45% in Vietnam

New Zealand: 88.5% (2025) · Vietnam: 45.4% (2025)

The air in Vietnam carries 3.7 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024) · Vietnam: 25.6 µg/m³ (2024)

New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022) · Vietnam: no data

Roads in Vietnam are 69% deadlier than in New Zealand

New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023) · Vietnam: 18.4 per 100k (2023)

Vietnam is on average 13.3 °C warmer than New Zealand

New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Vietnam: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

Vietnam gets 34% more rain than New Zealand

New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Vietnam: 2,132 mm (2016–2025 avg)