South Africa’s unemployment rate is now the highest in the world, according to Bloomberg.

It rose to 34.4% in the second quarter from 32.6% in the three months of the year, the news agency quoted Statistics South Africa as saying in its latest report.

Unemployment has been a long-standing problem in South Africa.

But analysts say recent restrictions to curb a third wave of coronavirus and last month’s riots in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces are likely to continue harming one of Africa’s biggest economies.