Unemployment rate: South Africa, earlier edition

This site's figures come from the World Bank's World Development Indicators as Our World in Data published them in its edition of 27 July 2026. Our World in Data's catalogue also keeps its edition of 29 January 2026, in which this series is "Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)". Both are below, year by year.

0 of the 34 years in both editions differ. 1 year appears only in the later edition.

The earlier edition is stored as single-precision numbers, which keep about seven significant digits, so its values are given to six. A year counts as differing only when the two editions disagree beyond that precision; where they agree, the value is given as this site gives it.

YearThis site (%)Edition of 29 January 2026Differs
202532.391none
202432.27932.279no
202332.09832.098no
202233.26833.268no
202134.00734.007no
202029.21729.217no
201928.46828.468no
201826.90626.906no
201727.03527.035no
201626.53626.536no
201525.14925.149no
201424.8924.89no
201324.56124.561no
201224.72724.727no
201124.63924.639no
201024.68324.683no
200923.52323.523no
200822.40722.407no
200722.2622.26no
200622.30422.304no
200522.47222.472no
200422.56722.567no
200322.67922.679no
200222.57922.579no
200122.65222.652no
200022.78822.788no
199922.88422.884no
199822.73922.739no
199722.54922.549no
199622.522.5no
199522.70522.705no
199423.06723.067no
199323.36123.361no
199223.46323.463no
199123.13723.137no

Earlier edition: Our World in Data's catalogue table and its metadata. This figure on this site · Versions.