Sworn Score
Country profile
New Zealand
Oceania · Capital: Wellington
Score 72.2 ± 5 · Rank #12 of scored countries in 1991.
Based on 102/123 indicators, avg data age 1.1 years.
Category breakdown
How New Zealand scores across the 7 dimensions
Weight-normalized averages over the indicators that have data. Categories below 70% coverage of their own indicators are suppressed.
Health
83.1
Economy
56.6
Governance
86.5
Education
—
Infrastructure
64.0
Environment
66.7
Rights
71.4
Promises
Latest promise updates
11 achieved · 1 on track · 4 failing · 2 tracking
History
New Zealand — Sworn Score over time
Each year is a snapshot using that year's methodology (trimmed-bounds over the trailing 5-year value pool). Click a column header to sort.
Change since 1980: +1.9 points
| Year | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — |
| 1967 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — |
| 1970 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — |
| 1977 | — | — |
| 1978 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — |
| 1980 | 73.6 | 7 |
| 1981 | 74.6 | 8 |
| 1982 | 74.9 | 10 |
| 1983 | 75.7 | 11 |
| 1984 | 69.5 | 10 |
| 1985 | 69.8 | 13 |
| 1986 | 69.8 | 18 |
| 1987 | 70.5 | 20 |
| 1988 | 73.0 | 16 |
| 1989 | 76.5 | 12 |
| 1990 | 72.9 | 11 |
| 1991 | 72.2 | 12 |
| 1992 | 72.7 | 11 |
| 1993 | 74.7 | 11 |
| 1994 | 78.0 | 7 |
| 1995 | 78.1 | 6 |
| 1996 | 80.5 | 5 |
| 1997 | 79.6 | 7 |
| 1998 | 78.5 | 10 |
| 1999 | 79.4 | 8 |
| 2000 | 76.2 | 14 |
| 2001 | 77.0 | 11 |
| 2002 | 77.4 | 9 |
| 2003 | 76.9 | 11 |
| 2004 | 77.8 | 9 |
| 2005 | 78.0 | 9 |
| 2006 | 78.0 | 11 |
| 2007 | 78.6 | 9 |
| 2008 | 78.0 | 11 |
| 2009 | 77.6 | 11 |
| 2010 | 77.9 | 11 |
| 2011 | 78.3 | 10 |
| 2012 | 78.1 | 10 |
| 2013 | 78.0 | 9 |
| 2014 | 78.3 | 8 |
| 2015 | 77.7 | 9 |
| 2016 | 77.7 | 9 |
| 2017 | 78.4 | 10 |
| 2018 | 78.2 | 8 |
| 2019 | 77.3 | 11 |
| 2020 | 77.3 | 9 |
| 2021 | 77.0 | 11 |
| 2022 | 76.8 | 10 |
| 2023 | 76.1 | 11 |
| 2024 | 75.6 | 10 |
| 2025 | 74.5 | 12 |
| 2026 | 75.5 | 8 |