No new jobs for Zim’s unemployed

AMERICAN market research firm, Fitch Solutions has predicted that the unemployment rate will average 19,5% in 2023, owing to years of underemployment and deindustrialisation.

As of September, there were 3 913 966 employed from the working age population of 15 years and over, numbering 9 190 909, according to national statistics. From those employed, persons informally employed were 87,4% with an expanded unemployment rate of 47,4%.

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