Proportion of women in the New Zealand Defence Force

By service, excluding reserves, as at 30 June 2023, % of people within each service

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year ended June: 2023, Government entity: New Zealand Defence Force, Gender: Female %
Service	% of people
Navy	27.89447972643%
Army	15.04487482286%
Air Force	23.11557788945%
Civilian	45.0929246821%

Definitions

The NZDF Regular Force is made up of full-time members of the Royal New Zealand Navy, the Regular Force of the New Zealand Army, and the Regular Air Force collectively.
NZDF Reserves are part time members of the military who, in addition to their civilian employment, have a parallel career in the NZ Defence Force as a member of the Navy, Army or Air Force.
Civilians are employed by NZDF in roles that do not require deployment in an operational environment. Civilian numbers include Veterans' Affairs New Zealand and locally employed civilians overseas.
Attrition rate: the number of terminations in the previous 12 months divided by the average staff of the previous 12 months. It excludes Reserves.

Changes to data collection/processing

For the civilian counts, FTE (full-time equivalents) is used up to and including the Year ended June 2014. From the year 2015 onwards reporting, it changed to a headcount measure. Regular and Reserves are consistently reported as headcount.