Region
Asia and Oceania
Global Rank
4/129
Regional Rank
2/19
Score
7.929
New Zealand’s IPRI score decreased by -0.15 to 7.929 placing it 2st in the Asia and Oceania region and 4th in the world. New Zealand is classified by the IMF as part of the Advanced economies group and by the World Bank as Lower middle income country.
New Zealand’s Legal and Political Subindex decreased by -0.029 to 8.756 with scores of 8.916 in Judicial Independence, 8.767 in Rule of Law, 8.039 in Political Stability, and 9.301 in Control of Corruption.
New Zealand’s Physical Property Rights Subindex decreased by -0.419 to 7.754 with scores of 8.093 in perception of Property Rights Protection, 8.653 in Registering Process, and 6.518 in Access to Financing.
New Zealand’s Intellectual Property Rights Subindex did not change and remained at 7.278 with scores of 8.066 in perception of Intellectual Property Protection, 6.495 in Patent Protection, 8.4 in Copyright Protection, and 6.15 in Trademark Protection.
New Zealand is a member of the following regional integration agreements
- OECD
- TPP-11
New Zealand - IPRI Overall Score
New Zealand - IPRI Overall Score
- 1: IPRI
- 2: Legal and Political Subindex
- 3. Judicial Independence
- 4. Rule of Law
- 5. Control of Corruption
- 6. Political Stability
- 7. Physical Property Rights Subindex
- 8. Property Rights Protection
- 9. Registering Property
- 10. Ease of Access to Loans
- 11. Intellectual Property Rights Subindex
- 12. Intellectual Property Rights
- 13. Patent Protection
- 14. Copyright Protection
- 15. Trademark Protection
New Zealand - IPRI Overall Score
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 8.110 | 5 | 1 | 2007 |
| Overall | 8.100 | 8 | 1 | 2008 |
| Overall | 8.350 | 4 | 1 | 2009 |
| Overall | 8.287 | 7 | 1 | 2010 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 6 | 2 | 2011 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 6 | 1 | 2012 |
| Overall | 8.400 | 2 | 1 | 2013 |
| Overall | 8.300 | 3 | 1 | 2014 |
| Overall | 8.207 | 3 | 1 | 2015 |
| Overall | 8.266 | 2 | 1 | 2016 |
| Overall | 8.633 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Overall | 8.632 | 2 | 1 | 2018 |
| Overall | 8.514 | 3 | 1 | 2019 |
| Overall | 8.424 | 4 | 2 | 2020 |
| Overall | 8.079 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Overall | 7.929 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Legal and Political | 8.621 | 1 | 1 | 2007 |
| Legal and Political | 8.600 | 1 | 1 | 2008 |
| Legal and Political | 8.763 | 4 | 1 | 2009 |
| Legal and Political | 8.763 | 2 | 1 | 2010 |
| Legal and Political | 8.800 | 1 | 1 | 2011 |
| Legal and Political | 8.800 | 1 | 1 | 2012 |
| Legal and Political | 8.900 | 1 | 1 | 2013 |
| Legal and Political | 8.900 | 1 | 1 | 2014 |
| Legal and Political | 8.974 | 1 | 1 | 2015 |
| Legal and Political | 9.008 | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Legal and Political | 9.031 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Legal and Political | 9.012 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Legal and Political | 8.891 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Legal and Political | 8.819 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Legal and Political | 8.785 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legal and Political | 8.756 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Physical | 8.033 | 6 | 1 | 2007 |
| Physical | 8.000 | 6 | 2 | 2008 |
| Physical | 8.346 | 6 | 1 | 2009 |
| Physical | 8.181 | 7 | 2 | 2010 |
| Physical | 7.700 | 12 | 4 | 2011 |
| Physical | 7.800 | 7 | 2 | 2012 |
| Physical | 8.200 | 3 | 1 | 2013 |
| Physical | 7.833 | 11 | 3 | 2014 |
| Physical | 7.774 | 5 | 2 | 2015 |
| Physical | 7.851 | 6 | 3 | 2016 |
| Physical | 8.826 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Physical | 8.874 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Physical | 8.711 | 2 | 2 | 2019 |
| Physical | 8.598 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Physical | 8.173 | 8 | 4 | 2021 |
| Physical | 7.754 | 6 | 3 | 2022 |
| Intellectual | 7.674 | 13 | 2 | 2007 |
| Intellectual | 7.700 | 14 | 3 | 2008 |
| Intellectual | 7.940 | 15 | 3 | 2009 |
| Intellectual | 7.917 | 13 | 3 | 2010 |
| Intellectual | 8.000 | 14 | 3 | 2011 |
| Intellectual | 8.000 | 11 | 2 | 2012 |
| Intellectual | 8.200 | 9 | 2 | 2013 |
| Intellectual | 7.967 | 18 | 4 | 2014 |
| Intellectual | 7.874 | 18 | 4 | 2015 |
| Intellectual | 7.937 | 18 | 4 | 2016 |
| Intellectual | 8.044 | 19 | 4 | 2017 |
| Intellectual | 8.009 | 17 | 4 | 2018 |
| Intellectual | 7.938 | 17 | 4 | 2019 |
| Intellectual | 7.855 | 17 | 4 | 2020 |
| Intellectual | 7.278 | 13 | 3 | 2021 |
| Intellectual | 7.278 | 13 | 3 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
New Zealand - Legal and Political Environment
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 8.621 | 1 | 1 | 2007 |
| Overall | 8.600 | 1 | 1 | 2008 |
| Overall | 8.763 | 4 | 1 | 2009 |
| Overall | 8.763 | 2 | 1 | 2010 |
| Overall | 8.800 | 1 | 1 | 2011 |
| Overall | 8.800 | 1 | 1 | 2012 |
| Overall | 8.900 | 1 | 1 | 2013 |
| Overall | 8.900 | 1 | 1 | 2014 |
| Overall | 8.974 | 1 | 1 | 2015 |
| Overall | 9.008 | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Overall | 9.031 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Overall | 9.012 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Overall | 8.891 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Overall | 8.819 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Overall | 8.785 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Overall | 8.756 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.864 | 4 | 1 | 2007 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.900 | 3 | 1 | 2008 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.167 | 2 | 1 | 2009 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.383 | 2 | 1 | 2010 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.700 | 1 | 1 | 2011 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.600 | 1 | 1 | 2012 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.600 | 1 | 1 | 2013 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.500 | 1 | 1 | 2014 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.583 | 1 | 1 | 2015 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.473 | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.466 | 2 | 1 | 2017 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.514 | 2 | 1 | 2018 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.900 | 3 | 1 | 2019 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.916 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.916 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.916 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rule of Law | No Data | No Data | 2007 | |
| Rule of Law | No Data | No Data | 2008 | |
| Rule of Law | 8.820 | 5 | 1 | 2009 |
| Rule of Law | 8.704 | 8 | 1 | 2010 |
| Rule of Law | 8.800 | 4 | 1 | 2011 |
| Rule of Law | 8.700 | 5 | 1 | 2012 |
| Rule of Law | 8.800 | 3 | 1 | 2013 |
| Rule of Law | 8.800 | 4 | 1 | 2014 |
| Rule of Law | 8.720 | 5 | 1 | 2015 |
| Rule of Law | 9.034 | 4 | 1 | 2016 |
| Rule of Law | 9.042 | 5 | 1 | 2017 |
| Rule of Law | 8.854 | 5 | 1 | 2018 |
| Rule of Law | 8.845 | 5 | 1 | 2019 |
| Rule of Law | 8.753 | 5 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rule of Law | 8.769 | 6 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rule of Law | 8.767 | 3 | 1 | 2022 |
| Political Stability | 7.400 | 4 | 1 | 2007 |
| Political Stability | 7.400 | 4 | 2 | 2008 |
| Political Stability | 7.480 | 7 | 1 | 2009 |
| Political Stability | 7.329 | 10 | 3 | 2010 |
| Political Stability | 7.000 | 15 | 3 | 2011 |
| Political Stability | 7.300 | 7 | 3 | 2012 |
| Political Stability | 7.700 | 2 | 1 | 2013 |
| Political Stability | 7.700 | 6 | 1 | 2014 |
| Political Stability | 7.899 | 1 | 1 | 2015 |
| Political Stability | 7.986 | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Political Stability | 8.034 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Political Stability | 8.092 | 2 | 2 | 2018 |
| Political Stability | 8.340 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Political Stability | 8.258 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Political Stability | 8.116 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Political Stability | 8.039 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.600 | 2 | 1 | 2007 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.600 | 1 | 1 | 2008 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.586 | 5 | 1 | 2009 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.636 | 5 | 2 | 2010 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.800 | 2 | 1 | 2011 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.700 | 2 | 1 | 2012 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.700 | 2 | 1 | 2013 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.600 | 3 | 1 | 2014 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.695 | 2 | 1 | 2015 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.540 | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.583 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.590 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.482 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.349 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.340 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.301 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
New Zealand - Physical Property Rights
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 8.033 | 6 | 1 | 2007 |
| Overall | 8.000 | 6 | 2 | 2008 |
| Overall | 8.346 | 6 | 1 | 2009 |
| Overall | 8.181 | 7 | 2 | 2010 |
| Overall | 7.700 | 12 | 4 | 2011 |
| Overall | 7.800 | 7 | 2 | 2012 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 3 | 1 | 2013 |
| Overall | 7.833 | 11 | 3 | 2014 |
| Overall | 7.774 | 5 | 2 | 2015 |
| Overall | 7.851 | 6 | 3 | 2016 |
| Overall | 8.826 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Overall | 8.874 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Overall | 8.711 | 2 | 2 | 2019 |
| Overall | 8.598 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Overall | 8.173 | 8 | 4 | 2021 |
| Overall | 7.754 | 6 | 3 | 2022 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.659 | 14 | 4 | 2007 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.700 | 14 | 4 | 2008 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.667 | 14 | 5 | 2009 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.633 | 16 | 5 | 2010 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.200 | 16 | 4 | 2011 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.300 | 15 | 4 | 2012 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.700 | 7 | 3 | 2013 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.500 | 9 | 3 | 2014 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.262 | 10 | 3 | 2015 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.494 | 8 | 4 | 2016 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.585 | 12 | 4 | 2017 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.844 | 5 | 2 | 2018 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.356 | 10 | 4 | 2019 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.093 | 12 | 5 | 2020 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.093 | 12 | 5 | 2021 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.093 | 12 | 5 | 2022 |
| Registering Process | 9.245 | 4 | 2 | 2007 |
| Registering Process | 9.200 | 3 | 2 | 2008 |
| Registering Process | 9.538 | 4 | 2 | 2009 |
| Registering Process | 9.592 | 4 | 1 | 2010 |
| Registering Process | 9.800 | 4 | 2 | 2011 |
| Registering Process | 9.800 | 6 | 2 | 2012 |
| Registering Process | 9.800 | 5 | 2 | 2013 |
| Registering Process | 9.800 | 4 | 2 | 2014 |
| Registering Process | 9.986 | 3 | 1 | 2015 |
| Registering Process | 9.986 | 3 | 1 | 2016 |
| Registering Process | 9.986 | 2 | 1 | 2017 |
| Registering Process | 9.986 | 3 | 1 | 2018 |
| Registering Process | 9.986 | 2 | 1 | 2019 |
| Registering Process | 9.909 | 7 | 1 | 2020 |
| Registering Process | 9.909 | 7 | 1 | 2021 |
| Registering Process | 8.653 | 5 | 2 | 2022 |
| Access to Financing | 6.196 | 15 | 5 | 2007 |
| Access to Financing | 6.200 | 14 | 5 | 2008 |
| Access to Financing | 6.833 | 7 | 1 | 2009 |
| Access to Financing | 6.317 | 13 | 4 | 2010 |
| Access to Financing | 5.100 | 27 | 7 | 2011 |
| Access to Financing | 5.400 | 20 | 5 | 2012 |
| Access to Financing | 6.000 | 12 | 5 | 2013 |
| Access to Financing | 6.100 | 5 | 4 | 2014 |
| Access to Financing | 5.073 | 11 | 4 | 2015 |
| Access to Financing | 5.073 | 11 | 4 | 2016 |
| Access to Financing | 7.906 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Access to Financing | 7.791 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Access to Financing | 7.791 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Access to Financing | 7.792 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Access to Financing | 6.518 | 11 | 5 | 2021 |
| Access to Financing | 6.518 | 11 | 5 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
New Zealand - Intellectual Property Rights
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 7.674 | 13 | 2 | 2007 |
| Overall | 7.700 | 14 | 3 | 2008 |
| Overall | 7.940 | 15 | 3 | 2009 |
| Overall | 7.917 | 13 | 3 | 2010 |
| Overall | 8.000 | 14 | 3 | 2011 |
| Overall | 8.000 | 11 | 2 | 2012 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 9 | 2 | 2013 |
| Overall | 7.967 | 18 | 4 | 2014 |
| Overall | 7.874 | 18 | 4 | 2015 |
| Overall | 7.937 | 18 | 4 | 2016 |
| Overall | 8.044 | 19 | 4 | 2017 |
| Overall | 8.009 | 17 | 4 | 2018 |
| Overall | 7.938 | 17 | 4 | 2019 |
| Overall | 7.855 | 17 | 4 | 2020 |
| Overall | 7.278 | 13 | 3 | 2021 |
| Overall | 7.278 | 13 | 3 | 2022 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 7.971 | 11 | 3 | 2007 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.000 | 12 | 4 | 2008 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.000 | 13 | 3 | 2009 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 7.933 | 13 | 3 | 2010 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.300 | 7 | 2 | 2011 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.300 | 7 | 2 | 2012 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.700 | 3 | 2 | 2013 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.600 | 3 | 2 | 2014 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.271 | 6 | 2 | 2015 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.462 | 5 | 2 | 2016 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.581 | 6 | 2 | 2017 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.728 | 5 | 2 | 2018 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.316 | 8 | 2 | 2019 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.066 | 10 | 4 | 2020 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.066 | 10 | 4 | 2021 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.066 | 10 | 4 | 2022 |
| Patent Protection | 8.000 | 20 | 4 | 2007 |
| Patent Protection | 8.000 | 22 | 5 | 2008 |
| Patent Protection | 8.200 | 34 | 6 | 2009 |
| Patent Protection | 8.017 | 36 | 7 | 2010 |
| Patent Protection | 8.000 | 37 | 7 | 2011 |
| Patent Protection | 8.000 | 35 | 7 | 2012 |
| Patent Protection | 8.000 | 35 | 6 | 2013 |
| Patent Protection | 7.400 | 43 | 9 | 2014 |
| Patent Protection | 7.350 | 47 | 11 | 2015 |
| Patent Protection | 7.350 | 48 | 11 | 2016 |
| Patent Protection | 7.350 | 49 | 11 | 2017 |
| Patent Protection | 7.100 | 54 | 10 | 2018 |
| Patent Protection | 7.100 | 55 | 10 | 2019 |
| Patent Protection | 7.100 | 55 | 10 | 2020 |
| Patent Protection | 6.495 | 28 | 6 | 2021 |
| Patent Protection | 6.495 | 28 | 6 | 2022 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.052 | 4 | 2 | 2007 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.100 | 5 | 3 | 2008 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.800 | 7 | 2 | 2009 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.800 | 4 | 2 | 2010 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.800 | 5 | 3 | 2011 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.800 | 4 | 2 | 2012 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.800 | 5 | 3 | 2013 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.800 | 4 | 2 | 2014 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.000 | 3 | 2 | 2015 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.000 | 4 | 2 | 2016 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.200 | 3 | 1 | 2017 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.200 | 3 | 1 | 2018 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.400 | 2 | 1 | 2019 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.400 | 3 | 1 | 2020 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.400 | 3 | 1 | 2021 |
| Copyright Protection | 8.400 | 3 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2007 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2008 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2009 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2010 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2011 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2012 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2013 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2014 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2015 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2016 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2017 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2018 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2019 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2020 | |
| Trademark Protection | 6.150 | 39 | 5 | 2021 |
| Trademark Protection | 6.150 | 39 | 5 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |