2024 Unemployment Rate In South African Countries. South africa unemployment rate for 2022 was 28.84%, a 0.07% increase from 2021. South africa's unemployment rate increased to 32.9% in q1 of 2024, the highest in a year, up from 32.1% in the prior period.

The estimates of the jobs gap rate, lu3 and the unemployment rate by gender and country income group. South africa’s unemployment rate surged to the highest on a global list of 82 countries monitored by bloomberg.