The expanded definition of unemployment, which includes people who
have stopped looking for work, was at 36.3 percent in the first three
months of the year, versus 33.8 percent previously.
Men hold placards offering temporal employment services in Glenvista, south of Johannesburg, file.
South Africa's
unemployment rate rose to 26.7 percent of the labour force in the first
quarter of this year from 24.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015,
data from the statistics office showed on Monday.
In
its quarterly labour force survey which polls households, Statistics
South Africa said this amounted to 5.714 million people without jobs in
the first quarter compared with 5.2 million previously.
Analysts polled by Reuters expected the unemployment rate to edge up to 25.3 percent in the first quarter.
The
expanded definition of unemployment, which includes people who have
stopped looking for work, was at 36.3 percent in the first three months
of the year, versus 33.8 percent previously.
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