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It’s official, New Zealand has has worst unemployment rate for over 10 years. Here’s a graph of NZ’s employment vs unemployment from Statistics NZ figures for the past 2 decades:
So whilst the recession is over, unemployment is still rising. New Zealand now has 168,000 people unemployed. It seems that a significant number of our unemployed people are new to entering the workforce (finishing secondary or tertiary studies). Our Prime Minister John Key stated to the NZ Herald that
“unemployment was always a lagging indicator, he said. That means it is slow to reflect downturns and upturns in the economy. The reality is the international economy has been weak and New Zealanders are concerned about their jobs so they are spending a little bit less.”
In addition those toughest hit were young people 18 – 24 years of age with 18.4%, Maori people 15.4% unemployment, and Pacific Island People at 14% unemployment. These figures compare with just 4.6% of NZ European’s being unemployed. If you think New Zealand is doing it tough spare a thought for Spain’s youth with over 40% unemployment there, which beats Lithuania’s current predicament. Spain’s unemployed number nearly the entire population of New Zealand, and they are close on 20% unemployment. At least Spain can take some comfort in arguably being the world’s greatest sporting nation with its top ranked and European Champion winning National soccer team, the best soccer club in the world in Barcelona FC, it’s tennis players (Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco, Tommy Robredo, David Ferrer, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Nicholas Almagro, Albert Montanes, Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Anabel Medina Garrigues, Carla Suarez Navarro etc), its Formula One Drivers, strong volleyball, basketball, hockey, atheltics etc.