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Dentists per 100,000 population: New Zealand, 2025-hl
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
New Zealand had 50.8 dentists per 100,000 people in 2025 (practising basis), derived from 2,705 practising dentists (Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25) divided by total population (World Bank WDI). Basis: practising.
Comparability B Confidence medium
Cite this
World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others). (2026). Dentists per 100,000 population: New Zealand, as of 2025-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/nz/dentists-per-100k/2025-hl/
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Record
- Value
- 50.8 per 100,000
- Unit
- per 100,000
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- medium
- Method
- derived
- Basis
- practising
- Scope
- other
- Headline
- Yes: this record leads in cross-market tables
- Comparability
- Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
- Derived from
- nz.dentists_practising.2025
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
"countryiso3code":"NZL","date":"2025","value":5324700
English: World Bank total population, NZL, 2025: 5,324,700
Locator: World Bank SP.POP.TOTL NZL 2025; numerator nz.dentists_practising.2025
Local definition
Headline rate (DECISIONS L4/L5): dentists_practising (practising) divided by World Bank total population, same year
Source
World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others): World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL). Registry entry: worldbank-sp-pop-totl.
Notes
Derived: 2,705 (nz.dentists_practising.2025, source nz-dcnz-annual-report-2025) / 5,324,700 (World Bank SP.POP.TOTL 2025) x 100,000 = 50.8. Numerator basis: practising. Other per-100k records for NZ use national-statistics denominators or other bases and are not the headline.
Metric definition
Dentists per 100,000 population; derived = dentists / population x 100000, or reported by source All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-hl | 50.8 per 100,000 | practising | Comparability B | World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) | ||
| 2025 | 63.5 per 100,000 | registered | Comparability B | Dental Council Annual Report 2024/25 (register and APC data at 31 March 2025) |
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