These are NZ’s OECD and World rankings (per capita)

Worst country for
*Suicide rates in ages 15-24
*Melanoma Rates
*Cannabis use
*Property crime victims
*Car ownership – 720 per 1000 people, even more than the USA’s 675 per 1000 (2005)
*Rates of driveway deaths in the developed world
*Rape victims In NZ only 9% of sexual offences get reported to police, and of those only 13% of rapes resulted in convictions. The median age of victims is 23 and Europeans account for 61% of the victims – See ‘Conviction rate in sex cases‘
*McDonalds Restaurants per $GDP
see also: Teenager dies in death pact

2nd worst country for
*Suicide rates in ages 25-34
*School bullying
*Total crimes per capita
*Car occupant deaths resulting from collision with car, pick-up truck or van
*Imprisonment rate in the Western World
*Total crime victims
*Asthma prevalence
*McDonalds restaurants per capita
*Immigration foreign population
*Personal income tax

3rd worst country for
*Rate of obesity in the OECD
*Adults prosecuted per capita
*Child maltreatment deaths
*Assault victims
*Teenage pregnancy
*Lone parent families
*Students finding school boring
*Amphetamine use
*Motor Vehicle Deaths
*Imports of brown coal (lignite) per capita
*Loss of electrical power between source and destination

7th fattest country in the world
62.7% of New Zealanders are obese according to the WHO, Kids watching too much TV and ‘modern development’ mostly to blame

8th worst country for Economic Crime (Fraud)
* See PWC Economic Crime Survey
For Road Death and Injury Statistics, see: Road Death Toll.