The South African government has implemented numerous economic policies to boost employment since the democratic transition in 1994. But between 1995 and 2022 the growth in employment—from 9.5 million in 1995 to 15.8 million in 2022—wasn't enough to keep up with the more rapid increase of job seekers which more than doubled from 13.7 million to 27.7 million during the same period.