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What is the average household income in South Africa?

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StatsSA: Quarterly employment statistics (QES) June 2022

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What is the average household income in South Africa?

Statistics South Africa has published the latest Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for the second quarter of 2022, showing what workers are getting paid across the various sectors in the country. These figures include the payment of bonuses and overtime. The formal non-agricultural sector saw a q...

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Economy

What is South Africa’s Gini coefficient?

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The World Bank: Inequality in Southern Africa: An Assessment of the Southern African Customs Union

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What is South Africa’s Gini coefficient?

The Gini coefficient is a globally used measure of inequality, among individuals or households within an economy. The coefficient ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 represents perfect equality (all individuals have the same income) and 1 indicates perfect inequality (where one person has all the income and...

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Economy

How many people are employed in South Africa’s tourism sector?

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Department of Tourism: Annual Performance Plan 2022/2023

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How many people are employed in South Africa’s tourism sector?

According to the World Travel and Tourism Council estimates, in 2020, the travel and tourism sector (direct and indirect) contributed about 987,400 jobs in South Africa. This represents a decrease of about 32.4% (contributing 6.5% to total employment), compared to roughly 1.46 million jobs (8.9% sha...

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Economy

What is South Africa’s unemployment rate?

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StatsSA: Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) – Q2 2022

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What is South Africa’s unemployment rate?

Statistics South Africa's Quarterly Labour Force Survey put the official unemployment rate at 33.9% in the second quarter of 2022. These results indicate that 648,000 jobs were gained between the first quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2022. ...

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Economy

What is South Africa’s youth unemployment rate?

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StatsSA: Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) – Q2 2022

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What is South Africa’s youth unemployment rate?

The second quarter of 2022 saw the total number of unemployed youth (aged 15-34) increase by 2% (or 92,000) to 4.8 million from Q1 in 2022. ...

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Economy

What is South Africa’s GDP per capita?

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The World Bank: GDP per capita (current US$) - South Africa

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What is South Africa’s GDP per capita?

After two consecutive quarters of positive growth, real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2022. The country's GDP per capita (nominal gross domestic product divided by the mid-year population) was US$6,994 in 2021. ...

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Sex & gender

Were men or women more likely to lose a job during South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown?

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Gender and the early effects of the Covid-19 crisis in the paid and unpaid economies in South Africa

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Were men or women more likely to lose a job during South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown?

The release of South Africa’s official unemployment numbers for the second quarter of 2020 (April to June) has been delayed. According to an analysis of National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey data, women accounted for the bulk of net job losses. This is “because wo...

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