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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Labor > Employment rate > Young men

DEFINITION: Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed. Ages 15-24 are generally considered the youth population.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Equatorial Guinea 79.6 2008
2 Ethiopia 78.9 2008
3 Uganda 78.6 2008
4 Burkina Faso 77.7 2008
5 Guinea 74.7 2008
6 Guinea-Bissau 74.3 2008
7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 72.8 2008
8 Burundi 72.2 2008
9 Madagascar 72 2008
10 Niger 71.3 2008
11 Tanzania 70.3 2008
12 Benin 68.9 2008
13 Somalia 68.6 2008
14 Senegal 65.5 2008
15 Central African Republic 65.3 2008
16 Togo 64.2 2008
17 Eritrea 64 2008
18 Cote d'Ivoire 63.4 2008
19 Liberia 62.4 2008
20 Rwanda 62.1 2008
21 Kenya 61.9 2008
22 Mozambique 55.9 2008
23 The Gambia 54.8 2008
24 Zimbabwe 54.5 2008
25 Comoros 53.5 2008
26 Zambia 52.5 2008
27 Lesotho 48.1 2008
28 Malawi 46.3 2008
29 Chad 46.1 2008
30 Cape Verde 45.9 2008
31 Mauritius 44.2 2008
32 Mali 40.5 2008
33 Cameroon 40.1 2008
34 Ghana 38.4 2008
35 Gabon 36.1 2008
36 Sierra Leone 35.7 2008
37 Nigeria 31.1 2008
38 Botswana 28.8 2008
39 Sudan 28.5 2008
40 Swaziland 26.4 2008
41 Mauritania 24.1 2008
42 South Africa 16.5 2008
43 Namibia 15 2008

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