By Shannon de Ryhove –
South Africa’s unemployment rate among youth aged 15 to 34 years increased from 32.7% to 36.1% between 2008 and 2014, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Thursday.
The unemployment rate was consistently higher among youth than among adults by more than 20 percentage points in the post recessionary period, said the latest Stats SA report on national and provincial labour market trends among the youth.
Young women were in a particularly precarious situation in the labour market with unemployment rates more than 10 percentage points higher than for that of young men.
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