{"id":189197,"date":"2025-01-21T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-majority-of-zambian-youth-see-their-country-as-moving-in-the-wrong-direction\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:24:38","slug":"zambia-majority-of-zambian-youth-see-their-country-as-moving-in-the-wrong-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-majority-of-zambian-youth-see-their-country-as-moving-in-the-wrong-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Majority of Zambian Youth See Their Country As Moving in &#8216;The Wrong Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">About one-third (34%) of young citizens say they have considered emigrating, most to find jobs or escape economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zambian youth (aged 18-35) have more education than their elders. Almost two thirds (63%) have secondary or post-secondary qualifications, compared to 37%-43% among older cohorts.<\/li>\n<li>But youth are also more likely to be unemployed: More than half (54%) say they are looking for work, compared to 32%-40% of the middle-aged. o Aside from the country&#8217;s general economic&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501210076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About one-third (34%) of young citizens say they have considered emigrating, most to find jobs or escape economic hardship. Key findings Zambian youth (aged 18-35) have more education than their elders. Almost two thirds (63%) have secondary or post-secondary qualifications, compared to 37%-43% among older cohorts. But youth are also more likely to be unemployed: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,5042,15052,7334,7469,257,254,9678,6276,4709,881,4396],"class_list":["post-189197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-country","tag-direction","tag-majority","tag-moving","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wrong","tag-youth","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}