New Zealand Youth Unemployment
New Zealand youth unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 14.36%.
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Interpretation
New Zealand recorded 14.36% for Youth Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.32 percentage points, from 14.04% to 14.36%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (12.10%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 9.36% in 2022 and the high was 14.36% in 2025.