In this photographic record taken on September 4, 2019, normal motorcycle taxis, known as okada, line up for passengers in Lagos, Nigeria. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) estimated the number of unemployed Nigerians at 21,764,617 at the end of June.
Abuja
The number of unemployed in Nigeria has increased to 21.8 million as a result of the negative effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the personal sector.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) estimated the number of unemployed Nigerians at 21,764,617 at the end of June, with covid-19 cases in the country reaching nearly 50,000.
Many private firms have rationalised their workforce and service industries have given up their sprawling office spaces and directed staff to work from home.
Employment statistics are available on the NBS Labor Force Statistics website, Unemployment and Underemployment Report (second quarter 2020), published in Abuja on 15 August.
He described the abbreviated report of the Covid-19 workforce survey for August 2020.
The benchmark unemployment rate represented an increase of 27.1% compared to 23.1% in the third quarter of 2018.
“An increase in unemployment sometimes means that the number of other people looking for paints has increased, which can happen because other people in the past, outdoors, the labor force has to enroll in the workforce and are now looking for a job,” the NBS said.
“Or other people who used to paint have lost their jobs and are now looking for a job. It’s often a mixture of the two.”
According to the report, the total number of other people hired in the reference era was 58,527,276.
Statistics of child-consistent hires showed 15.8 percent relief in employment in the third quarter of 2020.
Of these, 35,585,274 were full-time workers working 40 hours or more depending on the week, while 22,942,003 were underemployed and worked between 20 and 29 hours depending on the week.
The number of other people in the workforce, aged 15 to 64, who can and want to work, is estimated at 80,291,894.
This represents a minimum 11.3% in the number of other people registered in the third quarter of 2018.
Of these, the organization from 25 to 34 years were the highs with 23,328,460, or 29.1% of the working population.
The NBS noted that the unemployment rate for other people living in rural areas in the reporting era increased to 28%, up from 23.9% in the third quarter of 2018.
City dwellers also reported a rate of 25.4% compared to 21.2%.
In the case of rural underemployment, the rate rose to 31.5% in the reporting period, compared to 22.8% in the third quarter of 2018.
The rate among the city’s inhabitants also rose to 23.2%, with 13.7% in the third quarter of 2018.
The unemployment rate for young people and others over the age of 15 to 34 in the current 2020 quarter is 34.9%, compared to 29.7% in the third quarter of 2018.
In addition, underemployment for the same age organization rose from 25.7% to 28.2%.
These rates were higher for other age groups.
For government statistics at the time of the 2020 quarter, Imo’s status reported that the unemployment rate was 48.7%, followed by Akwa-Ibom and Rivers with 45.2% and 43.7% respectively.
The state with the lowest anambra rate in the southeast with 13.1 consistent with percent.
With respect to underemployment, the state with the rate is Zamfara at 43.7, consistent with penny, while Anambra has the lowest underemployment rate at 17 consistent with a penny.
A total of 2,736,076 others did not paint in the seven days prior to the survey due to closure, but had jobs to return to.
The NBS stated that unemployment and underemployment rates vary from state to state depending on the nature of the major economic activities in the state.
“Favorable situations in a state can lead to an influx of task seekers to that state and, in doing so, increase unemployment in the executing state, while reducing the unemployment rate in the home state,” he said.
“This would possibly give a false impression that the state with the lowest unemployment rate is performing better.”