New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The vast number of sheep in New Zealand relative to the country’s scant human ...

The unofficial national fruit of New Zealand isn’t native to the country – it’s South American. It isn’t exclusively found in ...

New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people. But the human population is catching ...

For close to 150 years, the sheep industry was the backbone of New Zealand's economy and numbers boomed — peaking in 1982 when there were more than 70 million sheep and just 3.2 million people.

New Zealand’s closest neighbor Australia — the source of most of the sheep jokes about New Zealanders — is also home to more sheep than people, but the national flock is shrinking there too.