This paper is part of a series of detailed background papers designed to support Te Tai Waiora, the Treasury's first Wellbeing Report, which was published in November 2022. New Zealand is home to the world's largest Pacific population. About one in 12 New Zealanders identifies as having a...

Accurately assessing and measuring population vulnerability across geographic scales is critical for risk management. Currently, the most widely used metric for vulnerability analysis in the United States is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)....