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Nigeria’s Unemployment Rate Compared With Selected African Countries (2024)

Nigeria’s unemployment rate compared with selected African countries (2024)

1. South Africa 🇿🇦: 32.28%
2. Botswana 🇧🇼: 24.43%
3. Lesotho 🇱🇸: 18.70%
4. Malawi 🇲🇼: 15.41%
5. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼: 12.13%
6. Rwanda 🇷🇼: 11.33%
7. Egypt 🇪🇬: 5.95%
8. Senegal 🇸🇳: 5.7%
9. Mauritius 🇲🇺: 5.21%
10. Nigeria 🇳🇬: 3.45%
11. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: 3.44%
12. Seychelles 🇸🇨: 2.59%
13. Tanzania 🇹🇿: 2.43%

<International Labour Organization>
#TheCableIndex

source

real or just kidding ??
how you make the calculations??

muyico:
real or just kidding ??
how you make the calculations??

NO
for PBAT mind and his online defenders like helinues mind it is 3.5%

muyico:
real or just kidding ??
how you make the calculations??

He plainly stated the source, but because the figures offend your preferred worldview, you suddenly develop an urgent interest in methodology. Now it’s not just the source, it’s how exactly he arrived at these figures. Complete with furrowed brows and sudden statistical expertise.

Yet let one exasperated soul post the exact opposite on Twitter, without a source, a footnote, or even a coherent thought, and you will instantly endorse it. You’ll weaponize it as fresh ammunition to insult every living, non-living, and metaphysical creation known to mankind, all while breaking into loud hymns of praise for Pitobi, the revered Agulu oracle of unquestionable truth.

ogododo:
Nigeria’s unemployment rate compared with selected African countries (2024)

1. South Africa 🇿🇦: 32.28%
2. Botswana 🇧🇼: 24.43%
3. Lesotho 🇱🇸: 18.70%
4. Malawi 🇲🇼: 15.41%
5. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼: 12.13%
6. Rwanda 🇷🇼: 11.33%
7. Egypt 🇪🇬: 5.95%
8. Senegal 🇸🇳: 5.7%
9. Mauritius 🇲🇺: 5.21%
10. Nigeria 🇳🇬: 3.45%
11. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: 3.44%
12. Seychelles 🇸🇨: 2.59%
13. Tanzania 🇹🇿: 2.43%

<International Labour Organization>
#TheCableIndex

https://x.com/i/status/2014000389561942261

Even if you are selling data or pure water, they count you as employed.

sonofthunder:
Even if you are selling data or pure water, they count you as employed.

funny but the truth 😂😂😂

Some people must have been so disappointed with this statistics

ogododo:
Nigeria’s unemployment rate compared with selected African countries (2024)

1. South Africa 🇿🇦: 32.28%
2. Botswana 🇧🇼: 24.43%
3. Lesotho 🇱🇸: 18.70%
4. Malawi 🇲🇼: 15.41%
5. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼: 12.13%
6. Rwanda 🇷🇼: 11.33%
7. Egypt 🇪🇬: 5.95%
8. Senegal 🇸🇳: 5.7%
9. Mauritius 🇲🇺: 5.21%
10. Nigeria 🇳🇬: 3.45%
11. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: 3.44%
12. Seychelles 🇸🇨: 2.59%
13. Tanzania 🇹🇿: 2.43%

<International Labour Organization>
#TheCableIndex

https://x.com/i/status/2014000389561942261

You don minit? You want some people to have heart attack? People don't actually value what they have. But South Africa fall my hand

helinues:
Some people must have been so disappointed with this statistics

"It has been 14 months since the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last released official unemployment data, underscoring persistent weaknesses in Nigeria’s labour-market reporting and leaving Africa’s most populous nation trailing peers, including Ghana, South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, and Angola on data timeliness.

Nigeria, referred to as Africa's giant, experienced significant delays in releasing official unemployment data, with reports in early 2026 highlighting a 14-month gap since the last official figures, causing concern over transparency and accurate labor market assessment compared to other African nations like Ghana and South Africa.

This delay underscores weaknesses in the National Bureau of Statistics's (NBS) reporting, leaving investors and policymakers without timely information on the nation's high youth unemployment and brain drain issues, even as different reports suggest rising rates.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/pro/article/africas-giant-delays-unemployment-data-14-months-on/%3famp l

And which stats did the ILO depended on to give Nigeria this rating. Not when the NBS have not released official statistical standings of the unemployment state in the Nigerian labour market for more than a year now due to fear of escalating figures.

When you see them hallucinating over seemly good stats, then know that they have cooked something nasty. After their failed demigod said; "nah statistics we go chop?"

...

Racoon:
"It has been 14 months since the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last released official unemployment data, underscoring persistent weaknesses in Nigeria’s labour-market reporting and leaving Africa’s most populous nation trailing peers, including Ghana, South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, and Angola on data timeliness.

Nigeria, referred to as Africa's giant, experienced significant delays in releasing official unemployment data, with reports in early 2026 highlighting a 14-month gap since the last official figures, causing concern over transparency and accurate labor market assessment compared to other African nations like Ghana and South Africa.

This delay underscores weaknesses in the National Bureau of Statistics's (NBS) reporting, leaving investors and policymakers without timely information on the nation's high youth unemployment and brain drain issues, even as different reports suggest rising rates.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/pro/article/africas-giant-delays-unemployment-data-14-months-on/%3famp l

I have told you to stop the coloring crayon copy and paste epistle when engaging with me.

Type your comments if you have the intellectual capacity.

Stop being boring with repeated comments

helinues:
I have told you to stop the coloring crayon copy and paste epistle when engaging with me......

Am not warped as a zombie to follow your senseless rantings. This is a social space. Face intellectual submissions with counter facts and stop acting childish. Now NBS has not released stats for a long time. So which data did ILO relied on for this ranking? Now answer before you are celebrating 2024 obs

The poorest black nation on earth without employment data claiming to have 3.5% unemployment

I no just understand some people sha

If the data favour them, it's correct, if it doesn't favour them, then it's not correct

In the same vein, any state their lord and personal saviour wins, election is free and fair there.

Any state he loses, election was rigged

Tell me why thunder no go fire them? Just tell me!

Unemployment is the state of not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work.

The last Nigerian unemployment rate computed almost 2 years ago, was intentionally wrongly calculated by the NBS.

Remember the country is still the undisputed poverty capital of the world
Nigerian Lecturers (professors) are the lowest paid in the world.
Nigerian Minimum wage is the lowest in the entire world.

Religious centers to industries are 10,000: 1 ratio in Nigeria

And you say the rate is still 3.5%?

Nigeria unemployment rate cannot be 3.5. Not possible.

muyico:
real or just kidding ??
how you make the calculations??

Which calculations?

You find job for Nigeria you no see?

sonofthunder:
Even if you are selling data or pure water, they count you as employed.

It’s like that too everywhere

It’s called jobs

Abi you no dey buy Data?

Nigeria's unemployment rate in reality is more than 60%.

The epidemic of Sportsbet and Gambling has taken a front burner and most depressed unemployed Youths are the most ferocious gamblers as their daily living depends on it.

Where are the Jobs when the contribution of Manufacturing to the Nigerian GDP growth is less than 2%.

NBS will get themselves in trouble by throwing around inaccurate data and stats.

Racoon:
And which stats did the ILO depended on to give Nigeria this rating. Not when the NBS have not released official statistical standings of the unemployment state in the Nigerian labour market for more than a year now due to fear of escalating figures.

When you see them hallucinating over seemly good stats, then know that they have cooked something nasty. After their failed demigod said; "nah statistics we go chop?"

You find job for Nigeria, you no see job?

Abi nah pass you carry comot for school?

Simple question
With the stats
Will you rather choose to live and earn in Nigeria or South Africa?

VeeVeeMyLuv:
NO
for PBAT mind and his online defenders like helinues mind it is 3.5%

You are more credible than ILO. If it had been 86% then you would have celebrated it. Why do you allow your mind to work like this.

Racoon:
And which stats did the ILO depended on to give Nigeria this rating. Not when the NBS have not released official statistical standings of the unemployment state in the Nigerian labour market for more than a year now due to fear of escalating figures.

When you see them hallucinating over seemly good stats, then know that they have cooked something nasty. After their failed demigod said; "nah statistics we go chop?"

Suddenly you are interested in NBS stats. When they release it you will call it propaganda. How can you be a native of a country, live in that country, sustained by the country and your everyday assignment is to blackmail, demarket and rob mudd on the country because your one untested hand lost and election?

Some people believe employment is all about white collar job 🙄 lol.As long as you means of earning money, it doesn't even matter how much you earn 🙄

iI will be damned if Nigeria's un-employment rate 3.4%. I think employment rate is 3.4%

Richtaiwo:
He plainly stated the source, but because the figures offend your preferred worldview, you suddenly develop an urgent interest in methodology. Now it’s not just the source, it’s how exactly he arrived at these figures. Complete with furrowed brows and sudden statistical expertise.

Yet let one exasperated soul post the exact opposite on Twitter, without a source, a footnote, or even a coherent thought, and you will instantly endorse it. You’ll weaponize it as fresh ammunition to insult every living, non-living, and metaphysical creation known to mankind, all while breaking into loud hymns of praise for Pitobi, the revered Agulu oracle of unquestionable truth.

Stop supporting mediocrity and frame it as being sensible, SA has a high unemployment because the whites made university education too cost that the blacks can't get a degree, despite this SA is a formal economy, no shops by the roadside or hawking, and most people are well employed with so many companies there.


Now in your country everyone has to build a shop in front of thier house because of no job.

Think oga Think.
U live in an informal economy, a failed one where ur senate laughs at the poor masses and the leaders care 0.000 about your next meal. Know this n know peace

helinues:
I have told you to stop the coloring crayon copy and paste epistle when engaging with me.

Type your comments if you have the intellectual capacity.

Stop being boring with repeated comments

So because u built a career on NL that doesn't pay you u feel you have some serious mental capacity?

If i follow u banter i will expose how naive u are.

This are part of the beneficiarys of the useless 9 million dollars they paid to keep telling lies about Nigeria image to Trump.
Useless and baseless figures.
What you practically see in the streets is enough to tell you the unemployment rate of Nigeria.