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The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) on Wednesday announced that the country’s unemployment rate stands at 36.9%.<\/em><\/p>\n In 2018, this stood at 33.4%.<\/p>\n This was announced by statistician general Alex Shimuafeni.<\/p>\n “In 2018, that number was 33.4% and now it is at 36.9%,” he said.<\/p>\n About 1.87 million Namibians are of working age, but only 867 247 are currently employed.<\/p>\n Shimuafeni said the working population has decreased over the yea<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) on Wednesday announced that the country’s unemployment rate stands at 36.9%. In 2018, this stood at 33.4%. This was announced by statistician general Alex Shimuafeni. “In 2018, that number was 33.4% and now it is at 36.9%,” he said. About 1.87 million Namibians are of working age, but only 867 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190270,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,724,9052,257,8876,6720,7170,254,6443,4749],"class_list":["post-190269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-nsa","tag-percent","tag-rate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands","tag-unemployment"],"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\/190269","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=190269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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