About South Africa Unemployment Rate
In South Africa, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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To calculate South Africa Unemployment Rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever South Africa Unemployment Rate is 21.50%.
The highest figure South Africa Unemployment Rate has ever reached is 35.30%.
Last quarter South Africa Unemployment Rate was 32.10%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 31.90%.