Stats Sexuality data

Stats NZ reported:

A person’s sexual identity is how they think of their own sexuality and which terms they identify with. In the 2018 GSS, the majority of New Zealand adults identified as heterosexual or straight (96.5 percent), with 1.9 percent identifying as bisexual, and 1.1 percent as gay/lesbian. The remaining 0.5 percent identified as other identities, which includes terms such as takatāpui, asexual, and pansexual, among others. 

This is the first time Stats NZ has collected this data. If you break it down by gender, you have:

• Heterosexual 96.5%
• Bisexual female 1.3%
• Gay male 0.7%
• Bisexual male 0.6%
• Lesbian 0.4%
• Other 0.5%

This may change over time though. 5.4% of 18 to 24 year olds identified as bisexual.