While sheep still outnumber people 5 to 1, the human population is increasing while the sheep population is falling. In future decades there may be more people in New Zealand than there are sheep.
Stats taken from QM's chart to make a rate.
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Year Sheep per Person People per Sheep
1961 19.99215533 0.05001961937 1962 19.77556103 0.0505674655 1963 19.83670208 0.05041160553 1964 19.87646259 0.05031076308 1965 20.46251397 0.04886985058 1966 21.50037532 0.04651081599 1967 22.21131353 0.04502210096 1968 22.09624503 0.04525655823 1969 21.60399976 0.04628772501 1970 21.38674071 0.04675794285 1971 20.52095184 0.04873068305 1972 20.7813124 0.04812015626 1973 18.96154323 0.05273832344 1974 18.36941375 0.05443831871 1975 17.94569772 0.05572366233 1976 18.14351422 0.0551161141 1977 18.92925392 0.05282828391 1978 19.86696649 0.05033481083 1979 20.26070002 0.04935663619 1980 21.85576837 0.04575451127 1981 22.08137693 0.04528703092 1982 22.04817191 0.04535523418 1983 21.84965711 0.04576730862 1984 21.50423492 0.04650246817 1985 20.76154109 0.04816598131 1986 20.50555815 0.04876726557 1987 19.40466415 0.05153400194 1988 19.38317183 0.05159114354 1989 18.02125288 0.05549003762 1990 17.02450376 0.05873886334 1991 16.00665318 0.06247402181 1992 15.00579045 0.06664094126 1993 14.11105849 0.07086640598 1994 13.65229009 0.0732477843 1995 13.28357065 0.07528096369 1996 12.7493835 0.07843516513 1997 12.27946557 0.08143676889 1998 11.73369584 0.08522463964 1999 11.96393942 0.08358450879 2000 10.95102642 0.09131564127 2001 10.23814891 0.09767390652 2002 9.984845602 0.100151774 2003 9.833772618 0.1016903724 2004 9.624294255 0.1039037226 2005 9.643588035 0.1036958439 2006 9.575410044 0.10443417 2007 9.085768499 0.1100622364 2008 7.967888961 0.125503757 2009 7.490414927 0.1335039527 2010 7.451292911 0.1342048973 2011 7.045620432 0.141932142 2012 6.996311031 0.1429324676 2013 6.813468806 0.1467681189 2014 6.525063125 0.1532552223 2015 6.310678309 0.1584615712 2016 5.920176895 0.1689138716 2017 5.854176512 0.1708182181 2018 5.754795514 0.1737681204 2019 5.607671486 0.1783271368