New Zealand
Public health researchers have analysed more than 120 public, outdoor statues of known figures in New Zealand, revealing an "epidemiology of statue attacks". They found almost a quarter of the statues had been intentionally attacked at least once, and that subjects involved in colonialism or direct harm to Māori had more than six times greater odds of being attacked. Their study also showed what kind of person was more likely to be represented with a statue - with most of the statues being male (87 per cent) and European (93 per cent), and Māori figures comprising just six per cent of their sample. The only statue commemorating someone of Asian ethnicity was of Ghandi, while Captain Cook had the highest number of multiple statues in the sample (five).
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