New Zealand vs Rwanda: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

New Zealand

5.3%

in 2025

Rwanda

5.4%

in 2025

New Zealand rank

94th

Rwanda rank

91st

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

New Zealand
Rwanda

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 5.4% against 5.3% in New Zealand, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 15 shared years of data; in 1989 it was New Zealand ahead.

New Zealand ranks 94th and Rwanda ranks 91st of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in New Zealand
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Rwanda
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates
Unit: %
Source: Labour Force Statistics, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 185 places, 5,169 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon. Figures refer to national estimates and may not be fully comparable across countries.