What do New Zealander people think about national sovereignty?
Sovereignty axis · 🇳🇿 New Zealand · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published New Zealander reading yet. DataRadio holds 74 New Zealander answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 26 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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Born in another country
UN DESA migrant stock · 2024
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28.2% |
higher than most countries
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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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1.2% |
somewhat below the middle
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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 national sovereignty
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 · You owe more to your own country than to the world as a whole.
B · You owe more to the world as a whole than to any one country.
World, unweighted: 54% A ·
18% neither ·
28% B · n = 3905
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🇳🇿 n=74 of 100 |
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A · No court outside our country should overrule the leaders we elect.
B · World courts should be able to overrule the leaders a country elects.
World, unweighted: 54% A ·
18% neither ·
28% B · n = 3936
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🇳🇿 n=78 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 national sovereignty
- National sovereignty poll new zealand
- What do new zealander people think about national sovereignty
- What percentage of new zealander people support national sovereignty
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.