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Freedom in Oceania

7 countries and territories, on every statistic this site carries. Each row shows the region’s best and worst on that measure and the median between them.

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Countries in Oceania

AustraliaFijiNew CaledoniaNew ZealandPapua New GuineaSolomon IslandsVanuatu

Personal

What a person may say, believe, publish, join and where they may go.

StatisticHighestLowestMedianCountries
Freedom of expressionNew Zealand 0.927Fiji 0.7240.8446
Freedom of associationNew Zealand 0.885Fiji 0.7210.8756
Civil libertiesNew Zealand 0.948Fiji 0.7740.8696
Freedom from political violenceNew Zealand 0.986Papua New Guinea 0.7820.9056
Equal protection of rightsNew Zealand 0.884Papua New Guinea 0.5040.7936
Academic freedomVanuatu 0.909Fiji 0.6360.8576
Media censorship effortNew Zealand 2.946Fiji 0.5491.8676
Harassment of journalistsNew Zealand 1.721Fiji 0.2681.3156
Media self-censorshipNew Zealand 1.573Vanuatu -0.7751.1656
Universal right to voteAustralia 1.000Vanuatu 1.0001.0006
Legal rights for womenNew Zealand 97.5Vanuatu 55.671.36
Women can get a passport as men doAustralia 1.000Solomon Islands 0.0001.0006
Access to justice for womenAustralia 1.000Papua New Guinea 0.0001.0006
Access to justice for menAustralia 1.000Papua New Guinea 0.0001.0006
Civil liberties scoreNew Zealand 59.0Papua New Guinea 39.048.56
Political rights scoreNew Zealand 40.0Papua New Guinea 22.030.06

Economic

What a person may own, trade, earn and keep.

StatisticHighestLowestMedianCountries
Trade opennessAustralia 45.9%Australia 45.9%45.9%1
Tax revenue as a share of GDPPapua New Guinea 15.5%New Zealand 29.5%23.6%4
Government spending as a share of GDPPapua New Guinea 20.3%Fiji 27.8%26.6%3
Foreign investment inflowsAustralia 2.0%New Zealand 1.4%1.7%2
Regulatory qualityNew Zealand 84.0Solomon Islands 40.952.86
GDP per capitaAustralia $60.2KSolomon Islands $2,382$9,2096
GDP growthPapua New Guinea 5.6%New Zealand 0.5%3.1%6
InflationPapua New Guinea 4.4%Fiji -1.4%2.9%6
UnemploymentSolomon Islands 1.4%New Caledonia 11.2%5.1%7
Government debtPapua New Guinea 52.0%Solomon Islands 26.0%52.0%3

Digital

What a person may read, send and encrypt online, and who is watching.

StatisticHighestLowestMedianCountries
Internet useAustralia 96.1%Papua New Guinea 18.8%74.7%5
Fixed broadband subscriptionsNew Zealand 38.0Papua New Guinea 0.21.85
Mobile subscriptionsFiji 574.2Papua New Guinea 38.8121.34

Government

How power is held, checked and abused.

StatisticHighestLowestMedianCountries
Electoral democracyNew Zealand 0.849Papua New Guinea 0.4670.7136
Liberal democracyAustralia 0.793Papua New Guinea 0.3840.5816
Rule of lawAustralia 0.990Papua New Guinea 0.5110.7866
Judicial checks on governmentAustralia 0.988Fiji 0.7950.8876
Legislative checks on governmentAustralia 0.940Solomon Islands 0.6480.7916
Political corruptionNew Zealand 0.014Papua New Guinea 0.6840.3116
Civil society participationAustralia 0.928Papua New Guinea 0.6040.7746
Women’s political empowermentNew Zealand 0.937Papua New Guinea 0.4800.6956
Voice and accountabilityNew Zealand 86.4Papua New Guinea 51.165.47
Control of corruptionNew Zealand 86.9Papua New Guinea 31.750.47
Government effectivenessNew Zealand 87.3Papua New Guinea 33.849.36
Political stabilityNew Zealand 85.5Papua New Guinea 54.779.47

Society

Health, schooling, safety and who takes part.

StatisticHighestLowestMedianCountries
Human Development IndexAustralia 0.958Papua New Guinea 0.5760.6766
Life expectancyAustralia 83.1Papua New Guinea 66.371.77
Secondary school enrolmentAustralia 131.9%Fiji 98.1%114.2%3
Government spending on educationSolomon Islands 8.3%Papua New Guinea 0.8%5.2%5
Health spendingAustralia 10.4%Papua New Guinea 2.9%4.7%6
Health costs paid out of pocketSolomon Islands 3.2%Australia 15.8%8.5%6
Maternal mortalityAustralia 2.0Papua New Guinea 189.065.06
Women in parliamentAustralia 46.0%Vanuatu 1.9%7.5%6
Women in the workforceSolomon Islands 82.3%Fiji 38.5%53.3%7
Fertility rateVanuatu 3.57Australia 1.482.277
Urban populationAustralia 87.7%Papua New Guinea 15.8%59.5%7
Refugees who leftNew Caledonia 0.0Fiji 26.71.57
PopulationAustralia 27.6MNew Caledonia 295.3K933.2K7

Environment

Energy, emissions and access to power.

StatisticHighestLowestMedianCountries
CO₂ emissions per personSolomon Islands 0.38New Caledonia 17.081.627
Renewable energy usePapua New Guinea 54.5%New Caledonia 8.3%28.9%7
Access to electricityAustralia 100.0%Papua New Guinea 43.3%95.9%7

Overlapping regions

These groupings share countries with Oceania. A country can belong to several at once — Turkey is in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

Asia-Pacific (7 shared)