Key data points
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Observation period
Q1 2024
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Forecast
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Highest
11.20% on Sep 30, 1991
Lowest
3.20% on Mar 31, 2022
About New Zealand unemployment rate
In New Zealand, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
New Zealand unemployment rate reports history
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate New Zealand unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever New Zealand unemployment rate is 3.20%.
The highest figure New Zealand unemployment rate has ever reached is 11.20%.
Last quarter New Zealand unemployment rate was 4.30%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 4.00%.