{"id":16543,"date":"2023-08-15T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T12:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16543"},"modified":"2023-08-15T14:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T12:35:40","slug":"mbalo-brief-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16543","title":{"rendered":"Mbalo Brief &#8211; August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the International Labour Organization\u2019s (ILO) World Employment and Social Outlook (2020), the global working-age population was recorded at 5,7 billion in 2020 and of that, roughly 57,9% (3,3 billion) were employed persons. It resulted in approximately 2,3 billion of the\u00a0working-age population who were either unemployed or not economically\u00a0active. Furthermore, high global unemployment trends in 2020 and 2021 were mainly driven by the measures implemented to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mbalobrief-Agust2023.pdf\">Download Mbalo brief August 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the International Labour Organization\u2019s (ILO) World Employment and Social Outlook (2020), the global working-age population was recorded at 5,7 billion in 2020 and of that, roughly 57,9% (3,3 billion) were employed persons. It resulted in approximately 2,3 billion of the\u00a0working-age population who were either unemployed or not economically\u00a0active. Furthermore, high global unemployment trends&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16543\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbalo-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16545,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions\/16545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}