{"id":229923,"date":"2026-04-09T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisian-youth-see-their-country-as-moving-in-the-wrong-direction-but-express-optimism-about-the-future\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:06:51","slug":"tunisian-youth-see-their-country-as-moving-in-the-wrong-direction-but-express-optimism-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisian-youth-see-their-country-as-moving-in-the-wrong-direction-but-express-optimism-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian Youth See Their Country As Moving in the Wrong Direction, but Express Optimism About the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Unemployment ranks as the top issue that youth want their government to address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tunisia&#8217;s youth (aged 18-35) are more educated than older generations. More than three-quarters (78%) of young Tunisians have attained at least secondary education, including 33% with post-secondary qualifications.<\/li>\n<li>But youth are also more likely to be unemployed. Nearly three in 10 young Tunisians (29%) say they are not employed and are actively looking for work, compared to 14%-25% of middle-aged&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment ranks as the top issue that youth want their government to address. Key findings Tunisia&#8217;s youth (aged 18-35) are more educated than older generations. More than three-quarters (78%) of young Tunisians have attained at least secondary education, including 33% with post-secondary qualifications. But youth are also more likely to be unemployed. Nearly three in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229924,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,5042,15052,10034,5760,7469,257,24208,254,653,6932,9678,6276],"class_list":["post-229923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-country","tag-direction","tag-express","tag-future","tag-moving","tag-news","tag-optimism","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian","tag-wrong","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\/229923","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}