New Zealand New Zealand - Global Right to Information Rating

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RTI Rating New Zealand

The transparency law of New Zealand has been in force since 1982 and with it has earned 94 points in the Global Right to Information Rating (RTI Rating). With that score New Zealand is now ranked 50 in the transparency ranking formed by 136 countries, meaning it is among those that must improve its laws in order to guarantee access to information.

This index ranks countries giving them a score of 0-150 depending on the strength of its legal framework which guarantees the right to information.

In the next table you can also see the scores obtained by New Zealand in each of the groups that make up the index. Access the list with the classification of all countries by clicking on RTI Rating and the economic information for New Zealand by clicking on Economy of New Zealand.


New Zealand - Global Right to Information Rating
DateRTI RakingYear RTI lawAccessScopeRequestingExceptionsAppealsSanctionsPromotionRTI Rating
202250º1,9824162218236594
202151º1,9824162218236594
202052º1,9824162218236594
201952º1,9824162218236594
201852º1,9824162218236594
201742º1,9824162218236594
201640º1,9824162218236594
201436º1,9824162218236594
201335º1,9824162118236593
201232º1,9824162118236593
201129º1,9824162118236593
New Zealand - Global Right to Information Rating
New Zealand - Global Right to Information Rating
Reproduced with permission from the Global RTI Rating, a joint project of the Centre for Law and Democracy and Access Info Europe. The Global RTI Rating database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).