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Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) — South Africa: 32.391 (2025)
The World Bank reports South Africa's modeled ILO unemployment rate as 32.391% for 2025. The dataset entry was updated on 2026-07-13.
Categories: economy-and-trade
Generated scores
Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.
- Confidence
- 8/10
- Geographic reach
- 5/10
- Global importance
- 4/10
- Impact magnitude
- 6/10
- Positivity
- 2/10
- Urgency
- 3/10
Why it matters
This provides a national labor-market indicator for South Africa for 2025.

