Health of New Zealanders in 2021/22

19% of adults
Daily smoking decreased from

drank alcohol in a
hazardous way
16% in 2011/12 to 8% in 2021/22

9% of adults and
11% of adults experienced high or very
high levels of psychological distress in the
6% of children
past 4 weeks
Psychological distress

felt they needed professional help

with their emotions, stress, mental 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Percent
health or substance use, but didn’t Low or none Moderate High or very high
receive that help

83% of adults rated 93% of parents have

their family’s wellbeing, someone they can turn to
at least 7 out of 10 for day-to-day emotional
(where 0 is low and 10 is high) support with raising children

69% of adults and 77% of children were getting the

recommended amount of sleep
Recommended sleep 7% seeadults of
weren’t
able toa GP in the
Adults Sleeps less than recommended
past year because they
couldn’t get time off
Meets sleep recommendations
Children Sleeps more than recommended

work
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Percent

88% adults of rated their health 4% of adults felt lonely

good, very good
as or excellent most or all of the time in the past
four weeks.

63% disabled adults

of rated
11% of disabled adults felt lonely
health good, very good
their as or
excellent most or all of the time in the past four weeks

Nov 2022 | HP8619