What do New Zealander people think about gender identity?
Social axis · 🇳🇿 New Zealand · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
79% of New Zealander respondents take the position “Whether you are a man or a woman is for you to say.”, against 7% for “Whether you are a man or a woman is set at birth.”, with 14% choosing neither. n = 113, margin of error ±9.4, weighted to New Zealand's adult population.
Where New Zealand sits on social
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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Urban population
UN World Urbanization Prospects · 2025
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84.0% |
higher than most countries
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Tertiary enrolment
UNESCO UIS · 2024
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77.2% |
higher than most countries
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Using the internet
ITU · 2024
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93.5% |
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 gender identity
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 · Whether you are a man or a woman is set at birth.
B · Whether you are a man or a woman is for you to say.
World, unweighted: 46% A ·
21% neither ·
33% B · n = 4753
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79% B 🇳🇿 n=113 |
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 gender identity
- Gender identity poll new zealand
- What do new zealander people think about gender identity
- What percentage of new zealander people support gender identity
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.