{"id":8925,"date":"2021-03-15T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:00:46","slug":"over-23-million-nigerians-are-unemployed-nbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/15\/over-23-million-nigerians-are-unemployed-nbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 23 million Nigerians are unemployed &#8211; NBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bureau of Statistics revealed on Monday that Nigeria\u2019s unemployment rate rose from 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures translates to 23.19 million unemployed people ( either did nothing or worked for less than 20 hours a week) in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/09\/photos-philippine-woman-searching-for-her-nigerian-father-on-twitter-gets-disappointing-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBS<\/a> disclosed this in its report on \u2018Labour force Statistics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/12\/nigerian-man-who-defrauded-us-state-of-virginia-collected-covid-19-relief-cheque-has-been-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unemployment<\/a> and underemployment report- Abridged labour force survey under COVID-19 (Q4, 2020).&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The statement partly read \u201cDuring 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA combination of both the unemployment and underemployment rate for the reference period gave a figure of 56.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that 33.3 per cent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/14\/nlc-gives-fayemi-deadline-to-pay-workers-outstanding-salaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labour force<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an additional 1,422,772 persons from the number in that category in Q2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the international definition of unemployment, the rate was computed to be 17.5 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bureau of Statistics revealed on Monday that Nigeria\u2019s unemployment rate rose from 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020. 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