The Employment and Unemployment Indicators in the country, based on the Employment Survey in Angola, show that in the last three months of last year, the population with informal employment was estimated at just over ten million (79.6 percent), mainly women (88.4 percent) and mostly in rural areas (91.6 percent) compared to urban areas (71.4 percent).
Statistics reveal that, in the period under analysis, 5.5 million people, aged 15 or over, were unemployed, with an estimated unemployment rate of 30.4 percent, being higher for women (32.3 percent), compared to men (28.4 percent), representing a difference of 3.9 percentage points.
The analysis also shows that the unemployment rate was higher in urban areas (35.8 percent) than in rural areas (20.7 percent).
Comparative data on the unemployment rate for the last three months of 2024 with the same period in 2023 show that the unemployed population increased by 0.7 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
“The unemployment rate decreased by 1.4 percentage points, which corresponds to a variation of minus 4.5 percent [compared to the same period last year],” the data highlights.
The employed population, aged 15 or over, was estimated at 12.5 million people, of which 6.2 million were men and 6.3 million were women, with an estimated employment rate of 62.8 percent, higher in rural areas.
“In the fourth quarter of 2024, in the universe of the working-age population (people aged 15 or over), 12,582,279 people declared that they worked in the reference period, in a job with a signed contract, as self-employed or worked in a family business. While 5,501,153 people did not have paid work or any other job and were available to work in the reference period, or in the following 15 days”, summarizes the research.
