South Africa’s unemployment crisis deepens in 2025, with 32.9% joblessness and 4.8 million jobless youth facing structural economic challenges.
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By 2050, one in three young people globally will be African. Yet the continent faces a critical youth unemployment crisis threatening economic and social stability.
South Africa’s unemployment rate hit 32.1% in late 2023, with 7.9 million people jobless. The IMF projects further deterioration to 33.5% this year and 33.9% by 2025.