Sub-Saharan Africa, surprisingly, has one of the lowest youth unemployment rates in the world.
At 8.4 per cent, unemployment among young people in the region is well below the global average of 12.4 per cent.
But the International Labour Organization says this is largely because many young Africans cannot afford to remain unemployed while searching for decent jobs, pushing millions into informal, poorly paid and insecure work.
With the region accounting for much of the growth in the world’s youth population, the pressure to create decent jobs is only growing.
Jasmine Wambui reports.
