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New Zealand Unemployment Rate 2025-05-07: data, chart, and analysis

The 2025-03-31 Unemployment Rate release printed 5.1. The previous reading was 5.1, while the forecast field is --. Traders usually read this release against the recent trend, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand policy bias, and the surprise versus consensus.

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Actual
5.1
Previous
5.1
Forecast
--
Public release ID
nzd_unemployment_2025-05-07

New Zealand Unemployment Rate release chart

Market context, recent readings, and scenario notes for this announcement.

New Zealand Unemployment Rate chart through 2025-03-31
NZD Unemployment Rate readings through 2025-03-31. Latest: 5.1.

Unemployment Rate release read

The 2025-03-31 Unemployment Rate release printed 5.1. The previous reading was 5.1, while the forecast field is --. Traders usually read this release against the recent trend, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand policy bias, and the surprise versus consensus.

The parent Unemployment Rate page shows the full time series for New Zealand. This page narrows the record to the individual release, keeping the realised value, prior value, forecast field, announcement-date URL, and source payload together at one canonical URL.

For NZD event-risk work, the important read is whether this print changes the recent trend or simply extends it. Compare the actual value with the previous and forecast fields above, then use the raw JSON below for backtests keyed to the stable announcement ID.

Release data snapshot

The values below are the citation fields for this announcement.

Public release ID nzd_unemployment_2025-05-07
API announcement ID nzd_unemployment_2025-03-31
Announcement date 2025-05-07
Reference period date 2025-03-31
Actual value 5.1
Previous value 5.1
Forecast --
Surprise --
Announcement timestamp 2025-05-07T10:45:00+12:00

API data for this announcement

The API endpoint returns the full New Zealand Unemployment Rate history. Clients can filter by date or match this row by announcement_id.

Forecasts live in the predictions endpoint and use the same announcement identifier where available. That is the preferred join key for realised values, forecast surprises, and release-event backtests.

Related New Zealand indicators

Continue from this release into adjacent macro series for the same country.

Employment Level

Total number of employed persons.

Full-Time Employment

Number of persons employed full-time.

Labor Force Participation Rate

Ratio of the labor force to the working-age population.

Part-Time Employment

Number of persons employed part-time.
Raw announcement payload

Field names are preserved for traceability and downstream testing.

{
  "announcement_datetime": 1746571500,
  "announcement_datetime_local": "2025-05-07T10:45:00+12:00",
  "announcement_id": "nzd_unemployment_2025-03-31",
  "date": "2025-03-31",
  "previous_value": 5.1,
  "revisions": [
    {
      "epoch": 1746571500,
      "val": 5.1
    }
  ],
  "val": 5.1
}