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Nigeria Records 27.1 % Unemployment Rate In Q2, Says NBS

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August 15, 2020
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Nigeria Records 27.1 % Unemployment Rate In Q2, Says NBS
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that 27.1 per cent of able bodied and willing to-work-Nigerians were unemployed as at second quarter of 2020.

The figure of unemployed Nigerians was 23.1 per cent when it was last published for the third quarter of 2018.

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In its ‘Labour Force Statistics: Unemployment and Underemployment Report’ released Friday, the agency also said underemployment increased from 20.1 per cent in third quarter of 2018 to 28.6 per cent in second quarter of 2020.

“For the period under review, the unemployment rate among young people (15-34 years) was 34.9 per cent, up from 29.7 per cent, while the rate of underemployment for the same age group rose to 28.2 per cent from 25.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2018.

The NBS said the number of persons in the economically active or working-age population (15 – 64 years of age) increased to 116,871,186 from 115,492,969 in the third quarter of 2018.

“The number of persons in the labour force (i.e. people within ages 15 -64, who are able and willing to work) was estimated to be 80,291,894. This was 11.3 per cent less than the number of persons in the third quarter of 2018.

“Of this number, those within the age bracket of 25-34 were highest, with 23,328,460 or 29.1 per cent of the labour force.”

The statistics office said the total number of people in employment in the second quarter of 2020 fell by 15.8 per cent 58,527,276, compared to third quarter of 2018.

“Of this number, 35,585,274 were full-time employed (i.e. worked 40+ hours per week), while 22,942,003 were underemployed (i.e. working between 20-29 hours per week),” the report said.

Based on state by state analysis, the report noted that Imo State reported the highest rate of unemployment with 48.7 per cent, followed by Akwa-Ibom State and Rivers State with 45.2 per cent and 43.7 per cent respectively.

Anambra recorded the lowest rate of unemployment at 13.1 per cent.

“For underemployment, the state which recorded the highest rate was Zamfara with 43.7 per cent, while Anambra State recorded the lowest underemployment rate, with 17 per cent in second quarter of 2020.

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“A total number of 2,736,076 did not do any work in the last seven days preceding the survey due to the lockdown but had secure jobs to return to after the lockdown,” the report added.

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