Tuvaluan people in New Zealand

Motor vehicles

• Ninety-three percent of Tuvaluan people lived in households with access to a motor vehicle in 2001. The comparable proportions for the Pacific and New Zealand populations in 2001 were 86 percent and 93 percent respectively, as figure 10.1 shows.

Telecommunications

• In 2001, 85 percent of Tuvaluan people lived in households with access to a telephone – a similar proportion to the Pacific population (87 percent). Among the New Zealand population, 95 percent had household telephone access.
• Twenty-two percent of Tuvaluan people lived in households with access to the Internet in 2001 – a similar level to the Pacific population (20 percent). The equivalent proportion among the New Zealand population was 43 percent.