{"id":190774,"date":"2025-02-07T05:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T03:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibias-unemployment-rate-worst-in-sadc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T05:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T03:46:39","slug":"southern-africa-namibias-unemployment-rate-worst-in-sadc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibias-unemployment-rate-worst-in-sadc\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia&#8217;s Unemployment Rate Worst in SADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>NAMIBIA has southern Africa&#8217;s highest unemployment rate, the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) has revealed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Unemployment is a measure of the percentage of people who are able and willing to work but cannot find jobs. The NSA&#8217;s manager for social statistics Linda Shitenga told The Namibian on Friday the country&#8217;s unemployment rate of 36.9% is the highest in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This means about 320 450 Namibians are unemployed. Namibia is followed by Eswatini at 34.2%&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502060120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMIBIA has southern Africa&#8217;s highest unemployment rate, the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) has revealed. Unemployment is a measure of the percentage of people who are able and willing to work but cannot find jobs. The NSA&#8217;s manager for social statistics Linda Shitenga told The Namibian on Friday the country&#8217;s unemployment rate of 36.9% is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00321657:baa758173d216c0a0c156ac722e10c4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,724,9052,257,7170,1412,254,7153,4749,10849],"class_list":["post-190774","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-rate","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-unemployment","tag-worst"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00321657:baa758173d216c0a0c156ac722e10c4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190774","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=190774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}