Nigeria’s unemployment rate global highest – Report

 

Nigeria has the highest global unemployment rate according to the World of Statistics.

The report, published on World of Statistics’ official Twitter handle on Monday, said Nigeria recorded the highest unemployment rate, with a figure of 33.3 percent.

It added that South Africa followed Nigeria with a 32.9 percent unemployment rate.

Conversely, Qatar has the lowest unemployment rate of 0.1 percent.

Nigeria has an estimated population of 223,804,632 in 2023, according to Wordometer.

It was gathered that the last time the National Bureau of Statistics published its unemployment rate was in the first quarter of 2020, when it stood at 33.30 per cent.