43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training
You find similarly grim numbers in Western Europe too. I mean youth unemployment was over 50% in Spain during the post-Great Recession crisis and is at 38% now.[1]<p>It&#x27;s pretty sad - young people are living with their parents into their thirties and not having children until their 40&#x27;s if at all, fuelling a massive decline in the birth rate to one of the lowest in the world at around 1.3 births per woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;spain&#x2F;youth-unemployment-rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;spain&#x2F;youth-unemployment-rate</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1033179&#x2F;fertility-rate-spain-1850-2020&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1033179&#x2F;fertility-rate-s...</a>