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New Zealand

New Zealand's best placing is 9th of 151 for coastline.

Best placing: #9Coastline
Top 10 placings: 1 / 17
Population: 5.3 million
Land area: 263,310 km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking New Zealand is.

Coastline

#9 of 151

15,134 km of coastline

2nd in Oceania · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Railways per person

#13 of 134

775.25 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

GDP per person

#21 of 182

49,591 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Airports per person

#24 of 192

38.69 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest per person

#26 of 194

0.0187 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Land area per person

#29 of 194

0.049 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Airports

#29 of 193

206 airports

3rd in Oceania · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Rainfall

#44 of 179

1,732 mm of precipitation per year

6th in Oceania · World Bank · 2022

Forest

#53 of 194

99,503 km² of forest

3rd in Oceania · World Bank · 2023

GDP

#51 of 182

264,057,413,740 US$ (current prices)

2nd in Oceania · World Bank · 2025

Railways

#42 of 135

4,128 km of railway

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

Airports by area

#69 of 191

7.82 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest by area

#73 of 194

37.8 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Land area

#74 of 194

263,310 km² of land

3rd in Oceania · World Bank · 2023

Railways by area

#54 of 133

15.68 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

Population

#123 of 195

5,324,700 people

3rd in Oceania · World Bank · 2025

Population by area

#166 of 194

20.22 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

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