A number of external factors help to inform transport decision making, including GDP, regional economic activity, population data, local authority statistics, oil prices, freight statistics, and levels of socio-economic deprivation.
Links to economic and demographic data
- New Zealand GDP(external link) information on New Zealand’s gross domestic product available on the Statistics NZ website.
- Regional economic activity(external link). Reports that provide time series information on regional economic activity, available on the MBIE website.
- New Zealand’s historical population data(external link) provides details about the size, composition, and geographic distribution of New Zealand’s population, available on the Statistics NZ website.
- Estimates and projections of future population(external link) information on the potential future size, composition, and geographic distribution of New Zealand’s population, available on the Statistics NZ website.
- Census information(external link)(external link) provides the official count of how many people and dwellings there are in New Zealand as at June 1996, 2001, 2006, 2013, 2018, 2023.
- Local authority financial statistics(external link) provides local authority annual expenditure information up to 2024 on the Statistics NZ website.
- Local authority financial projections(external link) contained in council long term plans, are available on the Local Government NZ website.
- Oil supply, transformation and demand(external link) information on oil supply (which is intimately linked to transport fuel demand and costs), available on the MBIE website.
- Freight volumes and values(external link) provides information on freight volumes moved within New Zealand as well as import and export volumes and values, available on the Ministry of Transport website.
- Road freight vehicle fleet statistics(external link). Freight vehicles statistics are contained in the vehicle fleet statistics information, available on the Ministry of Transport website.
- Socio-economic deprivation(external link) information on New Zealand social deprivation, available on the University of Otago, Wellington website.
