ACOG - New Zealand  - IBM

Geography

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

Area:
total area: 268,680 sq km
land area: 268,670 sq km
comparative area: about the size of Colorado

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 15,134 km


People

Population: 3,407,277 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 23% (female 381,027; male 401,285)
15-64 years: 65% (female 1,109,402; male 1,111,079)
65 years and over: 12% (female 234,339; male 170,145)

Population growth rate: 0.52% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.14 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.03 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -1.87 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 8.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.65 years
male: 73.08 years
female: 80.42 years

Total fertility rate: 1.99 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: European 88%, Maori 8.9%, Pacific Islander 2.9%, other 0.2%

Religions: Anglican 24%, Presbyterian 18%, Roman Catholic 15%, Methodist 5%, Baptist 2%, other Protestant 3%, unspecified or none 33% (1986)

Languages: English (official), Maori

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.)
total population: 99%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: New Zealand

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Wellington

Independence: 26 September 1907 (from UK)

Constitution: no formal, written constitution; consists of various documents, including certain acts of the UK and New Zealand Parliaments; Constitution Act 1986 was to have come into force 1 January 1987, but has not been enacted


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $56.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 6.2%

National product per capita: $16,640

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.6%

Unemployment rate: 7.5%

Electricity:
capacity: 7,520,000 kW
production: 30.5 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 8,401 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).