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Expenditure per person, 1988 and 2008

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Expenditure per person, 1988 and 2008

The total gross national expenditure is divided by the number of New Zealand residents to calculate the amount of spending in each category per person. Data adjusted to 2007/8 values.

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Source: Statistics New Zealand

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Paul Dalziel, Spending in the economy – Spending and investing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/22373/expenditure-per-person-1988-and-2008 (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Paul Dalziel, published 4 March 2010, updated 16 September 2016.