During the June 2024 year, New Zealand's population grew by ​93,500 or 1.8%​:

• We had a net migration gain of 73,300

• Estimated natural increase (births minus deaths) was 20,300

• As at 30 June there were 2,656,900 males and 2,681,700 females

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This follows a 0.1% rise in the March 2024 quarter.  GDP fell 0.2% over the year ended June 2024 compared with the year ended June 2023.

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In the June 2024 quarter:

• GDP fell 0.2 percent

• expenditure on GDP was flat, at 0.0 percent

• GDP per capita fell 0.5 percent

• real gross national disposable income was flat, at 0.0 percent

In the June 2024 quarter, compared with the March 2024 quarter, the:

• Unemployment rate was 4.6 percent, compared with 4.4 percent

• Underutilisation rate was 11.8 percent, up from 11.2 percent

• Employment rate remained at 68.4 percent

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In the year to the June 2024 quarter:

• All salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 4.3 percent

• Average weekly earnings (including overtime) for full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) increased to $1,612

• Average ordinary time hourly earnings increased to $41.52

Child Poverty Findings for the year ended June 2023:

• 12.6% of children lived in households with less than 50% of the median  household equivalised disposable before housing costs, unchanged from the previous year

• 17.5% of children lived in households with less than 50% of the median equivalised disposable income after housing costs, up from 14.4% in the previous year

• 12.5% of children lived in households in material hardship, up from 10.5% in the previous year

Child Poverty Monitor Findings for the 2022 year:

Family income:

• 187,300 or 16.3% of children live in low-income households.  These are households that have disposable equivalised income less than 50% of the national income after housing costs.

  • The target on this measure by June 2028 is 10%​​

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Access to essentials:​

• 125,700 children, or 11%, live in households experiencing material hardship, which means going without six or more essentials, such as having enough to eat, warm clothes and sturdy shoes.

• 4.9% of children live in households experiencing severe material hardship, which means going without nine or more essentials.​

  • By 2028, the Government has committed to reduce the number of children living in material hardship to 6%.

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Good Health:

• The Covid-19 pandemic coincided with a drop in immunisation rates for diseases other than Covid-19.

• In 2020/2021 only 85.7% of all babies were fully immunised at age 8 months.  For Pacific it was 84.2% and for Maori it is even lower at 72.1%.  The target for a protected community is 95%.

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Warm healthy homes:

• In 2020/21, 6% of children lived in homes with major dampness or mould problems, down from 9% in 2017/18.

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Access to Healthy Food:

• In 2020/21 one in six children lived in households where food ran out sometimes (12.0%) or often (2.9%) due to a lack of money.

• Maori (26.4%) and Pacific (37.3%) are most likely to sometimes, or often, run out of food, compared with European children (10.9%).

​It is estimated that only 33% of family violence cases are reported to Police.

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• About half of all homicides and reported crimes in New Zealand are related to family violence

• 67% of family violence incidents are NOT reported to Police.

• Police investigated 177,452 incidents of family violence in the year to June 2023.  This was a 49% increase from 2017

• Intimate partner violence (IPV) deaths make up almost half of family violence deaths.  In 98% if IPV death events where there was a record of abuse, women were the primary victim, abused by their male partner

• Family violence is estimated to cost NZ employers at least $368 million annually

• 1 in 3 women experience physical and/or sexual IPV in their lifetime

• In 2020, most applicants for protection orders were female (84%) and most respondents were male

• As many as one in 10 people over 65 years in New Zealand will experience family violence in a year and 70% of those who experience harm arm women

• There were 9,250 male prisoners and 674 female prisoners in NZ prisons as at 30 September 2024

• 36.1% of prisoners were aged between 30 - 39 years

• Maori accounted for 52.6% of all prisoners, European 28.6%, Pacific 12.3%

• 20.6% of prisoners were incarcerated as a result of acts of violence for sexual offences, 20.3% for acts intended to cause injury, 10.8% of unlawful entry with intent/burglary and 9.6% for illicit drug convictions. 

Charges:

• In 2023/24 there were 216,884 charges against adults (counting each charge individually).  This is a 13% increase from 192,287 in 2022/23.

• The number of adults charged is significantly lower than the peak of 348,632 in 2008/09.  The figure decreased to 168,204 people charged in 2021/22, but has increased in the years since then.

Convictions:

• When counting convicted charges individually, the most common offence types in 2023/24 were:

  • traffic offences, such as excess breath alcohol (33,693 convicted charges)

  • offences against justice, such as breaching a community work order (27,000 convicted charges)

  • theft (23,155 convicted charges)

  • assault (13,941 convicted charges)

  • drug offences (7,691 convicted charges)

​Note: People may be convicted of multiple charges per year as they may be brought to court and convicted more than once in the year for repeat offending or be convicted of multiple offences (each of which is a separate charge) at the same time. The total number of convicted charges against adults will be larger than the number of adults convicted in the year.

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Sentencing: 

Note: A person may receive more than one sentence when convicted of a charge

• In 2023/24, the most serious sentences received by convicted adults were:

  • monetary penalties (31%; 15,176 adults)

  • community work (14%; 7,182 adults)

  • imprisonment (13%; 9,303 adults)

  • community detention (9%; 4,667 adults)

  • supervision (7%; 4,567 adults)

  • home detention (6%; 3,052 adults)

  • intensive supervision (6%; 2,796 adults)

  • other sentence types (3%; 1,268 adults)

  • no sentence recorded 5%; 2,615 adults).

Note: children refer to those aged 10 - 13, and young people refer to those aged 14 - 17.

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In 2023/24:

• 1.704 children and young people had charges finalised in any court in 2018 (this includes Youth, District and High Courts). This is approximately 159 more than in 2022/23. 

• Of all children and young people with charges finalised in 2023/24, 81% were male and 18% were female.

• 50% of children and young people in court were 16 or 17 years old

• Māori made up 60% of children and young people with charges finalised in court: 1,020 Māori children and young people , 372 European, 102 Pacific Peoples, 18 of other ethnicities and 63 of unknown ethnicity.

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The number of children and young people with charges finalised in court is now higher than 2019/20, which is the earliest year that comparable data is available as prior to 1 July 2019, 17 year olds were not included in the youth jurisdiction.

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Findings for the June 2024 quarter:

• The June 2024 quarter pay gap of 8.2%  compared with 8.5% the previous year.  However this was not a statistically significant change as the gender pay gap had a sampling error of about 1.6 percentage points in the June 2024 quarter.

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​Note: the gender pay gap of 0% would imply no different in earnings between men and women.  This measure does not consider factors that could influence differences in earnings, such as occupation, qualifications gained, age, and hours worked.