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Nigeria: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1983–2024 · 15 observations · unemp

2024
3.46%percent
Change on 2023
+0.4 pointsfrom 3.07%
Average, 2015–2024
9.65%8 years
Record high and low
22.6% (2018)low 2.08% (1983)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20243.46
20233.07
20223.83
20194.45
201822.6
201717.5
201613.4
20159.00
20147.84
20139.95

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1983–2024
  • African Development Bank2010–2014
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2010–2018
  • International Labour Organization2011–2023

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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