Australia\'s unemployment rate rose to 5.1 percent in May, latest data showed, despite the creation of 38,900 jobs. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said the jobless rate inched up slightly from an upwardly-revised 5.0 percent in April, as more people started looking for work and the economy created thousands of new jobs. An increase in the total pool of jobseekers -- the participation rate -- will drive up the jobless rate even though extra positions are created. \"The number of people employed increased by 38,900 to 11,537,900 in May,\" the ABS said. The result, in line with forecasts, follows a robust economic growth reading for the first three months of 2012 which came in Wednesday at almost double expectations as Australia rides an unprecedented resources boom. Australia grew 1.3 percent in the March quarter, taking annual growth to a stellar 4.3 percent -- far outstripping its counterparts in the developed world which are struggling with the eurozone\'s debt crisis. The Australian dollar jumped half a US cent on the jobs data, hitting 99.45 US cents from 98.96.