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Namibia: Statistics agency under fire for hiding unemployment – News

Namibia: Statistics agency under fire for hiding unemployment – News

Africa Links 24 with Shelleygan Petersen
Published on 2024-10-31 17:00:00

The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) has been accused of excluding the unemployment figures from the 2023 census report to save the ruling government from criticism.

The NSA yesterday released the report with statistics on Namibians’ source of income but not the number of those who have jobs.

Analysts have bemoaned this decision, with some politicians accusing the agency of trying to save the government from a bad image right before the elections.

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