Unemployment Rate 2024 South Africa 2024. The official unemployment rate was 31,9% in the third quarter of 2023. The official unemployment rate climbed to 33,5% in the second quarter, the highest since the second quarter of 2022 when it was 33,9%.
2024 commemorates three decades since the inception of democracy in south africa. South africa’s unemployment rate rose for the second quarter in a row to 32.9% in the first three months of this year, data showed on tuesday, two weeks before the governing african.