Employment Rate, Ages 15, 64 (Quarterly, SA): South Africa

The latest reading SOTW holds for South Africa is 39.77% of population in subgroup for 2026-Q2, from OECD.

Reviewed series · Labor · Quarterly · % of population in subgroup · OECD.EMPLOYMENT.TOTAL.RT.Q · ZAF

Employed people as a share of the specified sex and age subgroup's population. This is not the unemployment rate or the share of the labour force. OECD Data Terms section 3 permits commercial reuse with attribution except separately restricted or third-party-owned data; no additional restriction was identified in the pinned flow metadata reviewed 2026-10-10. Collection time is not an original publication timestamp. Source observation flags and reference periods are retained.

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Latest

39.77

% of population in subgroup · 2026-Q2

Previous

39.83

% of population in subgroup · 2026-Q1

Earliest held

45.68

% of population in subgroup · 2000-Q3

Readings shown

89

Every reading SOTW holds