Statistics New Zealand (Statistics NZ)

Mission

Statistics New Zealand (Tatauranga Aotearoa is its Māori name) is a government department and New Zealand's national statistical office. It administers the Statistics Act 1975, and is the country's major source of official statistics.

Statistics New Zealand is driving New Zealand’s economy and informing key social decisions through our official statistics. It leads the collection and publicising of key information on nearly everything.

Some of the statistics we release are:
- the competitiveness of New Zealand businesses
- energy use
- agriculture
- water resource
- fish stocks
- retail figures
- tourism
- New Zealand’s incomes
- inflation, and
- who New Zealanders are.