Labor freedom sub-score of South Africa 2005-2020
The labor freedom sub-score on the Economic Freedom Index for South Africa was 58.8 as of 2020, which illustrated a decline of 0.3 points from the preceding year. During 2000 to 2020, the South African value ranged between 54.4 points in 2014 and 61.6 points in 2015. Throughout the period under review, the South African labor freedom value was higher than the African average except in 2014. Moreover, the value was lower than the world average for the majority of years with exceptions in 2015 and 2018. According to the index, the labor freedom in South Africa was considered "mostly unfree" as of 2020.