What do New Zealander people think about universal basic income?
Economic axis · 🇳🇿 New Zealand · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published New Zealander reading yet. DataRadio holds 0 New Zealander answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 100 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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Unemployment
ILO modelled estimate · 2025
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5.1% |
close to 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 universal basic income
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 · Money from the state should go to people who work, or who clearly need it.
B · The state should pay everyone enough to live on, with no strings.
World, unweighted: 50% A ·
50% neither ·
0% B · n = 2
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🇳🇿 n=0 of 100 |
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A · If machines take the jobs, people must retrain and move on.
B · If machines take the jobs, the state must guarantee an income.
No answers recorded yet.
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🇳🇿 n=0 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 universal basic income
- Universal basic income poll new zealand
- What do new zealander people think about universal basic income
- What percentage of new zealander people support universal basic income
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.