# zaref.dev South African Unemployment Rate History

> zaref.dev South African Unemployment Rate History is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Returns the full time-series history of South Africa's unemployment rate as a sequence of dated, verified data points.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/unemployment/history?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-unemployment-rate-history-b8205b76
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CPDcvkOUWpuF_l9ovcSeq

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability zaref-dev-south-african-unemployment-rate-history-b8205b76
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full historical record of South Africa's unemployment rate — every dated data point that zaref has verified and accumulated over time?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the full historical time series of South Africa's unemployment rate with verified, dated data points — not just the current figure. Ideal for trend analysis, charting, economic research, or building dashboards that show unemployment over time. Prefer this over the current-snapshot equivalent when historical context or longitudinal data is required.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed or x402 payment header missing — returns 402 Payment Required
- Network timeout or service unavailability — returns 5xx error
- No data available yet — returns empty array
- Malformed request — returns 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

History of South African Unemployment rate: dated points accumulating with every verified update.

## Output

A time-series array of dated South African unemployment rate data points, each entry representing a verified snapshot value at a specific point in time, accumulating all historical updates.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "points": [
   {
    "date": "2026-06-04",
    "value": "..."
   }
  ],
  "series": "unemployment"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-unemployment-rate-history-b8205b76/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from zaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/zaref.dev/llms.txt)