Unemployment / New Zealand
New Zealand Unemployment
New Zealand unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.08%.
COUNTRY: New Zealand
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
New Zealand · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
67 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
15.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
2.0 / 15
Financial robustness
14.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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New Zealand · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
5.08%
Previous
4.72%
Range avg.
4.35%
Rank
49
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IndicatorUnemployment
5.08%2025 · Rank 49
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
New Zealand recorded 5.08% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.35 percentage points, from 4.72% to 5.08%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (4.35%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 3.30% in 2022 and the high was 5.15% in 2016.
Comparison
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