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.
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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%.