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Nigeria Unemployment Rate 2010s

Unemployment as % of total labor force · World Bank
4.26% decade average (2010-2019)

Nigeria's unemployment rate during the 2010s ranged from 3.71% (2013) to 5.21% (2019), averaging 4.26% over 10 years of data.

2010s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2010 3.74% −0.02pp 45th
2011 3.77% −1.32pp 48th
2012 3.76% −2.20pp 50th
2013 3.71% −6.86pp 50th
2014 3.90% −6.06pp 49th
2015 4.13% −3.71pp 54th
2016 4.50% −4.50pp 63rd
2017 4.83% −8.55pp 78th
2018 5.07% −12.39pp 89th
2019 5.21% −17.36pp 96th