Western Australia's unemployment rate has dropped despite a national rise, in what an analyst says is an early sign of a positive outlook for the state.

Key points: Unemployment in WA fell from 6.4 per cent to 6 per cent in February

Unemployment in WA fell from 6.4 per cent to 6 per cent in February This is the third month unemployment has fallen since an almost 15-year high in November of 6.9 per cent

This is the third month unemployment has fallen since an almost 15-year high in November of 6.9 per cent These fresh figures combined with other economic growth indicators are signs of green shoots for WA, an analyst says

WA hit 6.9 per cent in November last year, the highest it had been in almost 15 years.

But latest figures show it fell from 6.4 to 6 per cent from January to February, while nationally unemployment rose from 5.7 per cent to 5.9 per cent on the same period.

WA's Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief economist Rick Newnham said it was good news.

"These are some green shoots coming through for the Western Australian economy — this is the third month that the unemployment rate has dropped in WA," he said.

"This means that we're no longer the state that has the highest unemployment rate in Australia, we're middle of the pack, just 0.1 per cent off the national average."

He said other figures of overall economic growth indicated a turn around for WA.

"It's in transition from a business investment-driven economy to an export-driven economy," Mr Newnham said.

"If you look at the economy without exports, [last month's state final demand figures] ... grew for the first time in almost two years."

In Western Australia, total job numbers actually fell from January and February, in seasonally adjusted terms, with a little more than 1.3 million people now employed in the state.

Of those, 918,000 are full-time.

There are more than double the number of men employed full-time than women in Western Australia, with women holding just 33 per cent of full-time jobs in the state.

Nationally, women hold almost 36 per cent of all full-time jobs.

In January, Comsecs's State of the States ranked WA last in terms of economic performance across all the states and territories.

At the time, Commsec's Craig James attributed WA's downturn to the end of the mining boom.

The report found annually, economic growth was down 5.6 per cent.