The weird thing is that Australia should not be that much richer than New Zealand but it is. Yes, it has the luxury of sitting on top of a rich pile of minerals but New Zealand actually earns more from its humble farms than Australia makes from mining.
I thought that couldn't possibly be true and typing three words into a search engine proved it.
Mining makes up 5.6% of Australia's GDP - ($645 - $789 billion depending on which estimates you choose)
Depending on how broad your definition of 'humble farms' is, NZ's agriculture sector accounts for between 4.3% - 16% of NZ's GDP ($100-$115 billion depending on which estimates you choose)
Even when using the most favorable (and wrong) statistics and definitions, Australia's mining industry still bests NZ's agriculture industry $32 billion to $18 billion.
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