Unemployment 2024. The unemployment rate trended up since april 2023, rising 1.3 percentage points over the period. Urban youths (57.7 per cent) participated more in regular work (17.5 per cent) than.

Global unemployment is expected to rise this year, with growing inequality and stagnant productivity also a cause for concern on the economic horizon, the un labour agency. Of the 14.5 million employed people in may 2024, 1.7 were underemployed.