In Ethiopia, unemployment is so massive that it makes no sense to bother measuring it. The youth have nothing to do after completing high school. The fate of college graduates is not that much different. Those who have relatives abroad try to leave their country for the unknown world with no adequate training or skills. As a result of living under oppression and in fear for so long, the population has been demoralized.
People see no way out of their predicament.
All that they care about is their daily survival. Ethiopia's present situation is largely the result of seventeen years of mistaken social and economic policy and government greed under the regime of Mengistu Hailemariam. Unfortunately, this trend is still not reversed. People have no freedom of work and investment opportunity. They cannot own land and accumulate wealth.