Over 23 million Nigerians are now unemployed as Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose from 27.1 per cent in he second quarter of 2020 to 33.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020, statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday.
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“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 cent,” the report read.
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“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.
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“Using the international definition of unemployment, the rate was computed to be 17.5 per cent.”
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