1m WORKERS BY 1966
Forecast For N.Z.
With migrants arriving in the Dominion at the rate of 10,000 a year New Zealand should have a labour force by 1966 of just more than 1,000.000 men and women. This would mean that about 38 per cent, of the forecast population of 2.635,000 in that year would be at work.
The latest Abstract of Statistics tables on the future of the Dominion’s labour strength forecast this and other totals up to the year 1960. By then, assuming the same rate of immigration, the labour force would be 1,326.000—1,004,000 men and 322.000 women in jobs. At present. 37.4 per cent, of the population comprises the country's work force—of the male population 56 per cent., and of the female population 18.6 per cent. The population in 1980 is expected to be 3.595,000 and by the turn of the century it is estimated that it will exceed 5,000,000.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29716, 9 January 1962, Page 12
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