Youth unemployment is a great concern in Namibia due to the increasing rates of unemployment in the
country between the periods of 2000-2008. The current overall unemployment rate stands at an alarming
51.2%. Therefore there is a great need to look into the factors impacting this alarming high
unemployment rate. However this paper is only interested in youth unemployment and focuses on the
socio-economic factors that impact unemployment. Past researches in Namibia focused solely on micro
and macro econometric approaches. The data used for this paper was secondary in nature and was taken
from Namibia Household Income & Expenditure Survey for the period 2009/2010. The methodologies
used in this research were spearman correlation to test for correlation between youth unemployment and
socio-economic factors, binary regression to assess the relationship between dependent variable and
independent variable. The results obtained shows that youth unemployment is highly influenced by
gender, age group, marital status, literacy, education level, citizenship and region. Thus planning methods
taken to try and reduce youth unemployment should look in the factors mentioned above.