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The New Zealand military has three branches: the New Zealand Army, the Royal New Zealand Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. New Zealand considers its own national defence needs to be modest; it dismantled its air combat capability in 2001. New Zealand has contributed forces to recent regional and global peacekeeping missions, including those in Cyprus, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Sinai, Angola, Cambodia, the Iran/Iraq border, Bougainville and East Timor.
The New Zealand military has three branches: the New Zealand Army, the Royal New Zealand Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. New Zealand considers its own national defence needs to be modest; it dismantled its air combat capability in 2001. New Zealand has contributed forces to recent regional and global peacekeeping missions, including those in Cyprus, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Sinai, Angola, Cambodia, the Iran/Iraq border, Bougainville and East Timor.
== International Rankings ==
'''Political and economic rankings'''
Political freedom ratings[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World_2006] - Free; political rights and civil liberties both rated 1 (the highest score available)
Press freedom[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders#Worldwide_press_freedom_index] - 19th freest, at 5.00
GDP per capita - 27th highest, at I$24,769
Human Development Index - 20th highest, at 0.933
Income Equality - 54th most equal, at 36.2 (Gini Index)
Literacy Rate - Equal first, at 99.9%
Unemployment rate - 94th lowest, at 8.30%
Corruption - 1st equal least corrupt, at 9.6 on index
Economic Freedom - 9th equal freest, at 1.84 on index
'''Health rankings'''
Fertility rate- 140th most fertile, at 1.79 per woman
Birth rate - 140th most births, at 13.90 per 1000 people
Infant mortality - 192nd most deaths, at 5.85 per 1000 live births
Death rate - 115th highest death rate, at 7.52 per 1000 people
Life Expectancy - 22nd highest, at 78.81 years
Suicide Rate - 35th highest suicide rate, at 19.8 for males and 4.2 for females per 100,000 people
HIV/AIDS rate - 149th most cases, at 0.10%
'''Other rankings'''
CO2 emissions - 42nd highest emissions, at 8.7 tonnes per capita
Electricity Consumption - 48th highest consumption of electricity, at 37,030,000,000 kWh
Broadband Internet access - 22nd highest uptake in OECD, at 11.7%
Beer consumption - 16th highest, at 77.0 litres per capita
Environmental Performance Index - Comprising; Environmental health, air quality, water resources, biodiversity and habitat, productive natural resources, sustainable energy - 1st out of 80 countries, at 88.0/100[14]