South Africa Youth Unemployment
South Africa youth unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 59.93%.
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South Africa · youth unemployment data as percent of GDP.
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External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 59.93% for Youth Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.32 percentage points, from 60.25% to 59.93%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (58.50%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 53.40% in 2017 and the high was 65.45% in 2021.