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Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
In 2015, Nigeria had a labour force of 74 million. In 2003, the unemployment rate was 10.8% overall; by 2015, unemployment stood at 6.4%. [146] Since 1999, the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) a union umbrella organization, has called six general strikes to protest domestic fuel price increases.
According to a 2018 report by the World Bank, almost half the population is living below the international poverty line ($2 per day), and unemployment peaked at 23.1%. [9] Nigeria had one of the world's highest economic growth rates, averaging 7.4% according to the Nigeria economic report that was released in July 2019 by the World Bank. [1]
Nigeria’s statistics agency on Thursday reported the country’s unemployment rate as 4.1%, the lowest in many years, but one analysts said was an undercount because of the agency's new methodology.
August 8 – Nigeria becomes the third African nation to declare a state of emergency over the outbreak. August 15 – Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in Doron Baga, a remote, sandy fishing village in the northeast, in Borno State, near Lake Chad.
This is a list of countries by employment rate, the proportion of employed adults at working age. The definition of "working age" varies: Many sources, including the OECD, use 15–64 years old, [1] but EUROSTAT uses 20–64 years old, [2] the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics uses 16 years old and older (no cut-off at 65 and up), [3] and the Office for National Statistics of the United ...
In 2012, 11.1million [30] youths in Nigeria were believed to be unemployed. [31] In a recent report by Bloomberg, it was revealed that as at March 2021, Nigeria Unemployment rate has increased to 33.3% making it the second highest on the global list of unemployed countries monitored by Bloomberg.
It has a population of about 190,000 and an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent. Other names not normally rolling off the tongue of urban dwellers include Sioux Falls (2.7 percent), Fargo (2.8 ...