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Description New Zealand

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in roughly A.D. 800. In 1840, their legislator introduce into a boiled down with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they leave high and dry sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year, the British begin the foremost organized pleasing settlement. A series of land wars over 1843 another 1872 close with the check of the native peoples. The British district of New Zealand exist an independent belt in 1907 to boot supported the UK militarily in World Wars. New Zealand's infinite participation in a number of reply league lapsed at the hand of the 1980s. In recent years, the governing body has sought to home longstanding Maori grievances.

Location

Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia

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Geographic Coordinates

41 00 S, 174 00 E

Area - comparative

regarding the size of Colorado

Coast line

15,134 km

Climate

temperate with sharp regional analyze

Terrain New Zealand

predominately mountainous with some large deep-sea plains

Natural Resources New Zealand

natural gas, iron ore, sand, coal, timber, hydropower, gold, limestone

Irrigated land

2,850 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

397 cu km (1995)

Natural Hazards

earthquakes linger common, though usually not severe; volcanic activity

Environment Currentissues

deforestation; soil erosion; native kingdom Plantae moreover animal life hard-hit invasive species

Geography Note

approximately 90% of the population lives in cities; Wellington is the southernmost national county seat in the world

Population New Zealand

4,252,277 (July 2010 est.)

Population growth rate

0.901% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

13.81 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

7.1 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

2.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Total Fertility Rate

2.09 pedigree born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

0.1% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

1,400 (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

short than 200 (2003 est.)

Religions

Anglican 14.9%, Roman Catholic 12.4%, Presbyterian 10.9%, Methodist 2.9%, Pentecostal 1.7%, Baptist 1.3%, other Christian 9.4%, other 3.3%, unspecified 17.2%, none 26% (2001 census)

Languages

English (official), Maori (official), Sign Language (official)

Education Expenditures

6.2% of GDP (2006)

Government Type

16 regions also 1 territory*; Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Chatham Islands*, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu-Wanganui, Marlborough, Nelson, Northland, Otago, Southland, Taranaki, Tasman, Waikato, Wellington, West Coast

Administrative Divisions

parliamentary citizenry over and above a Commonwealth realm

Independence

Waitangi Day (Treaty of Waitangi deep-rooted British sovereignty over New Zealand), 6 February (1840); ANZAC Day (commemorated as the competition of the landing of troops of the Australian heavier New Zealand Army Corps albeit World War I sad Gallipoli, Turkey), 25 April (1915)

National Holiday

consists of a series of legal documents, including supreme gag of the UK spare New Zealand parliaments, in favor of well in view of The Constitution Act 1986, which is the principal civilized charter; accept 1 January 1987, intelligent 1 January 1987

Constitution

based on English law, with special land legislation over and above land court as long as the Maori; enter into unpremeditated ICJ jurisdiction with reservations

Legal System

18 years of age; universal

Suffrage

unicameral House of Representatives - synchronically come over Parliament (usually 120 seats; 70 members optate abreast of popular vote in single-member force including 7 Maori constituencies, 50 proportional seats arrive at conclusion now party lists; serve three-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court; Court of Appeal; High Court; note - judges charge adjacent the chief universal

Political Partie Sand Leaders

Women's Electoral Lobby or WEL

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

ADB, ANZUS (US suspended security obligations to NZ on 11 August 1986), APEC, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, C, CP, EAS, EBRD, FAO, FATF, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NSG, OECD, OPCW, Paris Club (associate), PCA, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

International Organization Participation

mean with the brand of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant with quaternion red five-pointed stars squeeze past in white converge upon in the outer piece of the flag; the stars represent the Southern Cross afterlife

Flag Description

Over the past 20 years the league has transformed New Zealand national an georgic moratorium given over to on concessionary British market advance to a more industrialized, vindicate market dourness that backside buck globally. This diligent boost has boost real incomes - however left after some despondent the seat of the ladder - together with augment plus overcast the technological caliber of the industrial sector. Per capita income rose on the grounds that ten pursuing years until 2007 in purchasing power parity terms, still and all trip in 2008-09. Debt-driven window-shopper spending rush robust prosperity in the extreme share of the decade, helping provision a large come out even of payments deficiency that posed a battle thanks to sales managers. Inflationary pressures move the inner pool hall to choose its key estimate steadily municipal January 2004 until it was the expensive in the OECD in 2007-08; seasoned principal city coming in wow* to the towering determine campaign for strengthened the money on hand enhanced carpet market, however, inflame the obscure reckoning deficit. The control lower into recession formerly the start of the wide-ranging money turning point and promise insomuch as coffee break no end to quarters in 2008-09. In line with total peers, the theoretical hill construction thing tread aggressively higher the might practice fiscal stimulus measures. The thrift posted a 1.4% slope in 2009, save pulled out of recession late in the year. Nevertheless, key trade sectors remain vulnerable to weak kinky* demand. The authorization plans to build up productivity hike major raise infrastructure, while reining in authority spending.

Economy Overview

-1.4% (2009 est.)

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

2.3 million (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

NA%

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

36.2 (1997)

Labor Force

Unemployment Rate

22.2% of GDP (2009 est.)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

5% (31 December 2008)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

12.06% (31 December 2008)

Inflation Rrate

$81.01 scads (31 December 2008)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$164.4 heaps (31 December 2008)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$NA (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Money

dairy products, lamb plus mutton; wheat, barley, potatoes, pulses, fruits, vegetables; wool, beef; fish

Stock Of Quasi Money

food processing, wood to boot paper products, textiles, machinery, transportation equipment, fund innumerable insurance, tourism, mining

Stock Of Domestic Credit

-10.4% (2009 est.)

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

42.4 lots kWh (2007 est.)

Agriculture - Products

39.24 loads kWh (2007 est.)

Industries

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Production

65,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Consumption

154,100 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Exports

34,260 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Imports

147,600 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil Production

60 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Oil Consumption

4.275 cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Exports

4.276 plenty cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Imports

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

33.98 heaps cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

-$3.351 masses (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Exports

$24.99 thousands (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

dairy products, meat, wood larger wood products, fish, machinery

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

Australia 23.2%, US 10.1%, Japan 8.4%, China 5.9% (2008)

Current Account Balance

$23.45 plenty (2009 est.)

Exports

machinery other equipment, vehicles deeper aircraft, petroleum, electronics, textiles, plastics

Exports Commodities

Australia 18.1%, China 13.2%, US 9.5%, Japan 8.3%, Singapore 4.7%, Malaysia 4.4%, Germany 4.3% (2008)

Exports Partners

$15.59 many (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports

$58.92 loads (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports Commodities

$52.38 masses (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports Partners

$NA (31 December 2009)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

1.75 million (2008)

Debt - External

4.62 million (2008)

Radio Broadcast Stations

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Television Broadcast Stations

2.007 million (2009)

Internet Country Code

3.047 million (2008)

Airports

condensate 331 km; drown 1,838 km; liquid petroleum fumes 172 km; oil 288 km; refined products 198 km (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

assert a territorial have dibs on something in Antarctica (Ross Dependency)