{"id":205503,"date":"2025-08-26T05:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-unemployment-tops-youth-concerns-in-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:41:51","slug":"lesotho-unemployment-tops-youth-concerns-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-unemployment-tops-youth-concerns-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Unemployment Tops Youth Concerns in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Share of young Basotho who have thought &#8220;a lot&#8221; about emigrating has almost doubled since 2017, from 27% to 48%<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s youth (aged 18-35) are more educated than older generations. About three-quarters (74%) of youth have attained at least secondary education, compared to 23%-41% among older age groups.<\/li>\n<li>But youth are also more likely to be unemployed. More than six in 10 (62%) say they are not employed and looking for work, compared to 53% of those aged 36-55.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share of young Basotho who have thought &#8220;a lot&#8221; about emigrating has almost doubled since 2017, from 27% to 48% Key findings Lesotho&#8217;s youth (aged 18-35) are more educated than older generations. About three-quarters (74%) of youth have attained at least secondary education, compared to 23%-41% among older age groups. But youth are also more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,5987,4717,1407,257,254,9267,4749,6276],"class_list":["post-205503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerns","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tops","tag-unemployment","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/205503","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=205503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}