{"version":"v1","accessed_on":"2026-05-29T19:04:27.880Z","page_url":"https://worldprisons.com/countries/new-zealand","country":{"id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","slug":"new-zealand","name":"New Zealand","iso_code":"NZ","iso_code_3":"NZL","region":"Oceania","subregion":"Australia and New Zealand","prison_population":11255,"prison_rate_per_100k":211,"occupancy_rate":93.8,"pre_trial_percentage":40.3,"female_percentage":7.5,"foreign_percentage":3,"last_updated":"2026-03-31","source_url":"https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/new-zealand","notes":"Māori people are ~17% of national population but ~52% of prison population.","created_at":"2026-05-20T11:09:26.065715+00:00","updated_at":"2026-05-20T11:09:26.065715+00:00","data_quality":"high","last_verified_at":"2026-05-20","population_year":2026,"reference_population_year":null,"population_total":5340000,"currency":null,"known_gaps":null,"wpb_url":"https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/new-zealand"},"trends":[{"id":"e7b1347f-819c-4759-9049-99ae252ac377","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2000,"prison_population":5720,"prison_rate_per_100k":148,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"c3d7f063-35eb-4345-9383-3f593278d70a","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2002,"prison_population":5738,"prison_rate_per_100k":145,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"d257d865-4dc9-4013-be0b-3f695c41e675","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2004,"prison_population":6556,"prison_rate_per_100k":160,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"0faa6a62-ebf2-4e4d-8538-3a4ddea6de9f","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2006,"prison_population":7595,"prison_rate_per_100k":181,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"70ffb3ef-35a0-43aa-84fc-40010a4e9ac2","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2008,"prison_population":7763,"prison_rate_per_100k":182,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"2665b0a9-61e5-4674-afde-e2cb3257e443","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2010,"prison_population":8604,"prison_rate_per_100k":198,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"1a9033bc-fa85-4e30-acf3-4043ce7ee08f","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2012,"prison_population":8618,"prison_rate_per_100k":195,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"08a12f21-0c0a-4155-bcb5-085622aaa237","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2014,"prison_population":8571,"prison_rate_per_100k":190,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"eedabeeb-f7f7-4761-8a79-d21079c4765f","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2016,"prison_population":9495,"prison_rate_per_100k":203,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"585524a5-00a8-4a1c-8762-5bf58204ec0c","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2018,"prison_population":10435,"prison_rate_per_100k":214,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"02fc42ab-24bf-4d3b-a202-8259772e1826","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2020,"prison_population":9469,"prison_rate_per_100k":186,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"},{"id":"be4bca0c-2a20-4d3b-a2ae-79c62a28725a","country_id":"1415cd18-fefe-4c0b-b1df-36828441553d","year":2022,"prison_population":7728,"prison_rate_per_100k":150,"occupancy_rate":null,"source_id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3"}],"facts":[],"sources":[{"id":"0cb10416-8da9-40a9-9dbd-d8be266596b3","url":"https://www.prisonstudies.org/","slug":"world-prison-brief","notes":"Country-level population, rate, occupancy, female/foreign/pre-trial percentages.","title":"World Prison Brief (ICPS, Birkbeck)","publisher":"Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research","created_at":"2026-05-20T11:09:25.666512+00:00","accessed_on":"2026-05-20"}],"risk_aggregate":{"average":5,"counts":{"unknown":36,"low":2},"total":38}}