Why Everyone is Leaving New Zealand

This is New Zealand, genuinely one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

In addition to its picturesque landscapes, a lot of that beauty also comes down to the fact that it is extremely remote.

So much so that it's left off a lot of global maps and it's home to a relatively small population of just 5.3 million people.

These people enjoy a very high standard of living, good education, very stable government, good access to healthcare and a relatively egalitarian culture.

Now, while all of this may sound great on a tourism brochure, it has had some unintuitive consequences on the national economy, an economy which was very unique to begin with.

What is happening is that Kiwis are seeing a country that probably looks like a dreamland to most of the rest of the world and they're leaving it.

From an already small population, New Zealand has one of the highest rates of emigration anywhere in the world, with a bulk of them just making the short jump across here to Australia.

More than 10% of New Zealand's people currently live in Australia.

This isn't a small issue either.

There are in some cases just as many people leaving per capita from New Zealand as there are from third world countries embroiled in active conflicts.

And of course the question is, why?

To make matters worse, the bulk of this exodus is made up of highly productive workers right at the start of their careers.

Now, the population is still growing, but that has been fuelled largely by immigration to fill in the gaps left by the skilled workers who are leaving,

and that itself is creating other problems only making this whole issue harder to address.

And then on top of that, New Zealand is seeing the exact opposite problem coming the other way,

a certain group of Australians are flooding into New Zealand and doing what Australians do best.

So, what makes New Zealand's economy so unique?

What are the issues causing so many Kiwis to leave New Zealand?

And finally, why has this trend been so hard to reverse?

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New Zealand's economy is largely defined by the realities that it is quite small and extremely remote.

It has roughly the same total population as the city of Sydney just across the pond here in Australia,

and even here in Australia itself, we're not exactly known for our massive population.

But this is both a blessing and a curse.

A curse in the sense that building globally competitive industries there is extremely difficult because almost anything that can be done in New Zealand

can be done much cheaper at a much larger scale and much closer to shipping lanes up in Asia.