Unemployment Statistics In South Africa 2025. Youth Unemployment Rate In South Africa 2025 Samuel F Watkins According to the QLFS Q4: 2024 results, there was an increase of 132 000 in the number of employed persons to 17,1 million while there was a decrease of 20 000 in the number of unemployed persons to 8,0 million. Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment
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The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) reports an unemployment rate of 31,9% in Q4: 2024, reflecting the continued difficulty many South Africans face in securing jobs According to the QLFS Q4: 2024 results, there was an increase of 132 000 in the number of employed persons to 17,1 million while there was a decrease of 20 000 in the number of unemployed persons to 8,0 million.
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The 2025 State of the Nation Address (SONA) underscored South Africa's pressing labour market challenges, with unemployment remaining a top national concern The pace of employment growth is expected to have slowed in 2024, with average growth for the first three quarters at 2%, compared with an average of 6.2% in 2023. According to the QLFS Q4: 2024 results, there was an increase of 132 000 in the number of employed persons to 17,1 million while there was a decrease of 20 000 in the number of unemployed persons to 8,0 million.
Stats SA Unemployment rate highest in 11 years. Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment South Africa's official unemployment rate has dropped by 0.2 percentage points to 31.9% in the fourth quarter of 2024, down from 32.1% in the previous quarter.
The South African economy sheds more than half a million jobs in the 3rd quarter of 2021. This is supported by statistics indicating a 45,5% unemployment rate among young individuals (aged 15-34 years), in contrast to the national average of 32,9% in the first quarter of 2024. Unemployment Rate in South Africa averaged 27.36 percent from 2000 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 35.30 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021 and a record low of 21.50 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008.