The employed labour force increased by 1.9% in the fourth quarter of 2022 in Angola, compared to the third quarter of the same year.
Therefore, the employment rate increased by 0.6 percentage points ( pp), compared to the third quarter.
The data are contained in the Rapid Information Sheet (FIR) of the Survey on Employment in Angola (IEA, acronym in Portuguese), published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE, acronym in Portuguese).
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The source stated that the employment rate among men decreased by 2.6 pp and that of women increased by 3.5 pp, compared to the third quarter of 2022.
During the same period, according to the document to which ANGOP had access, the employment rate of young people aged 15 to 24 (39.6%) was 5.1% higher than in the third quarter of the year in question.
In the main sectors of economic activity, about 50% of the employed population (working population with a job) declare that their main job is agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, forestry and fishing, followed by trade in wholesale and retail, with 21.7%.
Among the employed population, the data indicates that most work in the private sector, noting that family worker, without pay, increased by 2.3 pp, compared to the third quarter of 2022.
Compared to the same period of the previous year, the employed population increased by 7.3%, the employment rate of young people aged 15 to 24 increasing by 4.9 pp compared to the same quarter of the previous year, according to the document.
In this same period, fourth quarter, the population working in production for own consumption increased by 4.2 percentage points.
The IEA sample showed that at the national level, the majority of employed people are in informal employment, 80.5%.
Of this percentage, 50.5% are self-employed (50.3%), 29.5% family workers and 10.7% work for their own consumption.
With regard to ages, the employed population aged 15 and over was estimated at 11.6 million, including 5.5 million men and 6.0 million women.
The employment rate was estimated at 63.1%, being significantly higher in rural areas than in urban areas (79.7% and 54.4%), respectively, similar to the evolution that occurred in almost every quarter, resulting in a difference of 25.2 percentage points.
Still high unemployment
Contrary to the figures for the employed population, the survey shows that the unemployed, aged 15 or over, are estimated at 4.9 million, including 2.42 million men and 2.49 million women.
These figures brought unemployment among the population aged 15 or over to 29.6%, being highest among men at 30.4% and slightly reduced among women at 28.9%.
But compared to the third quarter of 2022, the unemployed population aged 15 or over increased by 0.2% in the fourth quarter.
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The unemployment rate for the population aged 15 and over fell by 0.4 percentage points.
Compared to the year 2021, the unemployed population decreased by 8.0%, compared to the same quarter of the previous year and the unemployment rate decreased by 3.3 percentage points, which corresponds to a change of minus 10.0%.
The Angola Employment Survey is a sample survey, aimed at the population living in family homes in Angola.
Per quarter, a total of 10,944 households are selected, 6,036 in urban areas and 4,908 in rural areas, in the country’s 18 provinces. NE/AC
