The country has 9.1 million jobs and 14.1 million people of working age, said Cláudio Fortuna, researcher at the Center for African Studies at the Catholic University of Angola (UCAN), yesterday in Luanda.
During the National Conference on Natural Resources in Angola a Blessing for All, which addressed the topic “Economic Challenges with a focus on Youth Unemployment in Mining Exploration Zones”, the researcher said that the studies bring data from 2023, and were based on the report of the World Bank that determined of the 9.1 million jobs in Angola, 55 percent of people carry out independent activities, ten percent family, seven percent employer, 20 percent private and 11 percent public.On the occasion, he also mentioned that in percentage and general terms, regarding the number of unemployed people in the country, 22 percent of young people are in an unstable employment situation.During the conference, the academic highlighted that, of the 3.5 million jobs created in ten years, 2.7 million were developed in the Agriculture and Commerce sectors.For him, the main promoters of employment growth in the country recorded “poor performance” at a macroeconomic level.At a macroeconomic level, he said, economic growth is largely driven by the number of workers and must be stimulated by productivity, generated by more qualified workers and technology.Cláudio Fortuna suggested the implementation of professional training centers and medium institutes in all provinces based on their economic potential to provide a satisfactory and short-term response to the demand of each natural resource sector present in the market.“A diversified and productive private sector can quickly generate more and quality jobs,” he said.
