Search for a command to run...
The extracted dataset covers all 53 African Union member states for the year 2026, disaggregated by: country, year, single year of age (15–35), sex (female/male), labour market status (employed/unemployed/inactive/students), educational attainment (no education, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, tertiary), and economic sector (Agriculture, Industry, Services). The four underlying data files used in this study have been deposited in a publicly accessible repository and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY 4.0): • World Data Lab / Africa Youth Employment Clock. Youth Labour Market Dataset — Africa, 2026 (53 countries, ages 15–35). Exported from https://africayouthjobs.io. [Please note: we are in the process of depositing these files on Zenodo to obtain a permanent DOI. The DOI will be communicated to the editorial team within 48 hours of this response and will be inserted into the final published version of the manuscript.] This project contains the following underlying data files: – employed_2026.xlsx: Youth employment by country, age, sex, and economic sector. – unemployed_2026.xlsx: Youth unemployment by country, age, sex, and educational attainment. – inactive_2026.xlsx: Youth inactivity by country, age, sex, and educational attainment. – student_2026.xlsx: Youth students by country, age, sex, and educational attainment.