What do New Zealander people think about government spending?
Economic axis · 🇳🇿 New Zealand · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published New Zealander reading yet. DataRadio holds 70 New Zealander answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 30 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 economic
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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Tax revenue
IMF Government Finance Statistics · 2024
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29.5% |
among the highest in the world
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Health spending
WHO Global Health Expenditure · 2024
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10.1% |
higher than most countries
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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 government spending
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 · A government should balance its books, even if that means cutting services.
B · A government should borrow to keep services going, rather than cut them.
World, unweighted: 25% A ·
22% neither ·
53% B · n = 3884
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🇳🇿 n=70 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 government spending
- Government spending poll new zealand
- What do new zealander people think about government spending
- What percentage of new zealander people support government spending
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.