Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose from 27.1 per cent in Q2 of 2020 to 33.3 per cent in Q4 of 2020, the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday.
The NBS stated in its report on “Labour force Statistics: Unemployment and underemployment report- Abridged labour force survey under COVID-19 (Q4, 2020)” that this translated to 23.19 million unemployed people.
Part of the report read: “During the reference period, the computed national unemployment rate rose from 27.1 per cent in Q2, 2020 to 33.3 per cent in Q4, 2020, while the underemployment rate decreased from 28.6 per cent to 22.8 per cent.
“A combination of both the unemployment and underemployment rate for the reference period gave a figure of 56.1 per.
“This means that 33.3 per cent of the labour force in Nigeria or 23,187,389 persons either did nothing or worked for less than 20 hours a week, making them unemployed by our definition in Nigeria
“This is an additional 1,422,772 persons from the number in that category in Q2, 2020.
Source: (NBS/NA)
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