50,000 fewer jobs since Dec 2023 & Other Stats
National Coalition has also spent over $5 million in one year on consulting advice around the public service. For paid subscribers.
- 73,400 - That’s the number of Kiwi citizens who left NZ in the year to July 2025 - an extraordinary loss and record
- 50,000 - The number of filled jobs NZ has lost since December 2023 - 20% (10,000) just in the last quarter
- 21,600 - The number of overdue home loans in the June quarter, a slight improvement from the 8 year high in March 2025.
- 2500 -The number of businesses liquidated in 2024, a 10 year record high. (This is 33% higher than the average liquidations during Labour at 1660, and ironically 2500 is the average business liquidations per year during John Key’s last term.)
- 1300 - The number of businesses that have folded in the first half of this year, on track to breaking last year’s record
- 25 - That’s the number of undeclared properties (mostly rentals) that National Party MP Carl Bates omitted from the MP interest registry. Many of the properties are rentals in Whanganui, making Bates’ family one of the biggest private landlords in his electorate.
- 5 + - That’s the number of millons this Coalition government has spent on consultancies on public sector restructuring in the year to July 2025
