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Nigeria Unemployment Rate 2000s

Unemployment as % of total labor force · World Bank
3.76% decade average (2000-2009)

Nigeria's unemployment rate during the 2000s ranged from 3.59% (2004) to 3.95% (2000), averaging 3.76% over 10 years of data.

2000s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2000 3.95% −0.03pp 49th
2001 3.90% −0.05pp 51st
2002 3.67% −0.23pp 44th
2003 3.64% −0.03pp 40th
2004 3.59% −0.05pp 40th
2005 3.73% +0.14pp 42nd
2006 3.75% +0.02pp 49th
2007 3.79% +0.04pp 53rd
2008 3.79% −0.00pp 53rd
2009 3.76% −0.03pp 42nd