New Zealand: health insurance coverage

At the end of the 2019 fiscal year, the total number of lives covered by private health insurance totaled over 1.4 million in New Zealand. In that financial year, the value of claims paid by health insurers amounted to over 1.3 billion New Zealand dollars.

Number of lives covered by health insurance in New Zealand from financial year 2016 to 2019 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of lives in thousands
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Release date

July 2019

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Region

New Zealand

Survey time period

financial year 2016 to 2019

Special properties

as of March

Supplementary notes

One New Zealand dollar is equal to approximately 0.61 U.S. dollars and 0.59 euros (as of March 2021).

New Zealand's financial year runs from April 1 to March 31; for example, financial year 2017 starts on April 1, 2016 and ends on March 31, 2017.

Data are from the Health Funds Association of New Zealand (HFANZ) - the industry body representing health insurers within New Zealand. Membership is voluntary, with HFANZ members accounting for over 80 percent of private health insurance policies in place in the country.

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