Thursday, November 6, 2014

Rising employment is more than keeping up with New Zealand's growing population, while unemployment is falling.

Statistics New Zealand says unemployment has fallen to just 5.4%.

Due to strong migration, the country's had its largest annual rise in population in a decade.

There were 72,000 more people employed over the last year, and 64,000 more people in the country.

That pushed the employment rate up, so 65 out of every 100 adults had jobs.

The number of people employed has grown 3.2%since last September.

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