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NZ report card 2025: How the country fared in 28 key global and domestic rankings (www.rnz.co.nz)
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In short, 2025 was a difficult year. New Zealand often scores well or shows improvement on global indexes, but look closer to home and the devil is in the detail. To borrow a phrase from old school reports: Shows great potential but needs to try harder.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The general impression I get from this article is that we still rank highly for most things, but we're slipping.

This one is telling:

Prisons: Incarceration rates are growing fast, moving past 10,680 people behind bars in March (up from a low of 7500 in 2022), with strong growth projected.

[–] BaconWrappedEnigma@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 months ago

It's alarming! We could take the wind out of gangs and save a bunch of money on incarceration if we followed the advice of NZ Drug Foundation

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's a huge jump!

I'm surprised the manufactured recession didn't make it into the economy segment, but maybe that's just me being a wellingtonian

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

with strong growth projected

Reads like a sales pitch.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 months ago

We'll be mirroring the US in no time! Something every country wants to do, right? ...