NZ Statistics

Here are the New Zealand statistics for the following


Obesity:
Adults -  1 in 3 adults over 15 were obese (31%)  and 34% were overweight
Children - 1 in 9 children (aged 2 to 14 years) were obese (11%)  and 1 in 5 children were overweight (22%)

Smoking:
Around 5000 people each year in New Zealand die from smoking or second hand smoking. That 13 people dying a day.


Cancer:
Every day in NZ around 51 people get diagnosed with cancer.

Exercise:
Out of a survey of 2000 people nearly a quarter of them exercise less then once a week. But another quarter exercised once a day.

Languages:
17.5 percent of people in NZ can speak 2 or more languages but there is 80.5 percent who speak only 1 language and 2.0 percent of people speak none.

Sport:
92% of young people in NZ play a sport and 68% of adults are active and they do at least 2.5 hours of sport a week.

Computers:
41.4 people in per 100 population in 2003, NZ had access to a personal computer.

Education:
75% of men have successfully completed high school and 73% of women.

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