2023-12-15 01:01:03
It is with unfailing optimism that I provide clarification on certain statistics most often reported in the Senegalese press regarding the level and rate of unemployment.
In the strict sense of the ILO, precisely in the 2nd quarter of 2023, 61.2% of people of working age participated in the labor market. This allows us to see, depending on gender, that participation is higher among men than among women with respective rates of 70.3% and 52.4%. This reality is generally explained by considerations which are sociological, psychological or even transcendental. (ENES T2_2023).
Regarding the unemployment rate, we are witnessing a significant drop according to data provided by the ANSD, it went from 21.7% in the 2nd quarter of 2022 to 18.6% over the same period in 2023, i.e. a drop of 3.1 percentage points. It should be noted that the unemployment rate among men is 8.7%. Alongside the data provided by the ILO, it is estimated at 4.1% in the quarter under review.
Achieving this reduction in the unemployment rate is the result of the combined efforts of our government, the private sector and the Senegalese population as a whole. It illustrates the effectiveness of multiple projects and programs driving economic growth such as: the Xëyu Ndaw Gni emergency program, the community agricultural estates program, the Great Green Wall project, integrated special economic zones, TERs and BRT, the 100,000 housing project, the ports of NDAKHONGA and NDAYANE, phase II of the Diamniadio industrial platform, agropoles, energy sector projects and women’s empowerment projects, etc.
Ultimately, if it were not for the COVID 19 pandemic, at this rate, the unemployment rate would be below 10%.
Pope Modou FALL
Director of Employment
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