What do New Zealander people think about free trade?
Sovereignty axis · 🇳🇿 New Zealand · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published New Zealander reading yet. DataRadio holds 75 New Zealander answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 25 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where New Zealand sits on sovereignty
What is measured about New Zealand on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2024
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50.7% |
lower than most countries
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Foreign direct investment
IMF Balance of Payments · 2025
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1.4% |
somewhat below the middle
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$48,232 |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on free trade
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Trade deals mostly help the rich and cost ordinary workers.
B · Trade deals help ordinary people more than they hurt them.
World, unweighted: 55% A ·
19% neither ·
26% B · n = 3926
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🇳🇿 n=75 of 100 |
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A · We should buy things from whoever makes them best and cheapest, wherever they are.
B · We should protect our own key industries, even if that means we pay more at home.
World, unweighted: 23% A ·
20% neither ·
56% B · n = 3980
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🇳🇿 n=76 of 100 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- New zealand public opinion on free trade
- Free trade poll new zealand
- What do new zealander people think about free trade
- What percentage of new zealander people support free trade
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.