An appropriate level and quality of infrastructure is an important contributor to economic growth. Robust, internationally consistent data on infrastructure quality are diffi cult to obtain. Whenever possible, objective data have been used but this section still relies on some international surveys of business perceptions of infrastructure quality, which need to be interpreted with caution. New Zealand is perceived as having lower-quality infrastructure than the OECD mean. In the 2010–2011 Global Competitiveness Report, New Zealand moved from 34th out of 125 countries in 2007 to 45th out of 133 countries (21st in the OECD). Similarly, Mercer rated infrastructure in.
