victorsomadina/Unemployment-in-Africa

# Unemployment in Africa This project is about a data analysis challenge organised by 10alytics to uncover insights and raise recommendations relating to the rate of unemployment in Africa. The dataset is a global dataset, and data cleaning was required to extract data that will be meaningful to the analysis. This process involves filtering just the Africa continent for the analysis. The dataset was strictly provided by 10alytics. # Insights ### Unemployment Overview in Africa In a 1.9 billion population, there are aboout 15.70% unemployment rate in Africa as compared to the other continents, in which females occupies a major part of the unemployment rate with about 11.5% unemployment rate. Countries like Lesotho, Djibouti, South Africa and so on appears to be the countries with the highest unemployment rate. One noticeable trend is a spike in unemployement rate in the year 2020. This could be as a result of the sit at home initiated by the covid-19 virus which led to many people loosing their jobs. ### Factors Contributing to Increased Unemployement Rate ##### Does government expenditure on education have an effect on unemployment rate? The visual analysis above shows that their might not be a significant positive correlation between high government expenditure on education and reduced unemployment rate, as countries with the highest unemployment rate still saw a higher expenditure on education. Also, it only makes sense that spending much on education without setting platforms to foster good employment opportunities, can only lead to an increased unemployment. To further confirm this, a global analysis was carry out and it was found that Africa with the highest expenses on education are on the top chart for high unemployment rate. #### Does National Strategy for Youth Employment have any Effect on the Rate of Unemployment Developing strategy appears to be leading by gap on the unemployment rate. Developing strategy only pose the false hope danger. Sett …