New Zealand Labor Force Participation
New Zealand labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 70.35%.
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Interpretation
New Zealand recorded 70.35% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.20 percentage points, from 70.55% to 70.35%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (70.43%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is broadly stable.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 69.55% in 2016 and the high was 71.50% in 2023.