The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently shared some information about jobs in Nigeria. They looked at how many people have jobs and how many don’t. In the first part of 2023, 4.1 out of every 100 people in Nigeria didn’t have jobs. And in the last part of 2022, 5.3 out of every 100 people were without jobs.
These new numbers are much lower than the big number we heard before in the last part of 2020, 33.3% out of every 100 people didn’t have jobs. This means that more people are finding work now. It’s interesting because the situation in Nigeria seems similar to that in the United States, where 3.4 out of every 100 people are without jobs, and in the United Kingdom, where 4.2 out of every 100 people don’t have jobs.
Before, the NBS said that about 63 out of every 100 people in Nigeria were very poor. Prices going up also made around 4 million more people poor in the first five months of this year, according to the World Bank.
When they talked about this new information, they said it was because they used different rules to count the jobs, not just because the government did better.
They looked at people who have jobs where they get paid. These are people who worked for at least one hour in the last seven days.
However, some people are not happy with these new numbers. They say that these numbers don’t really show what’s happening now, and they might make the people in charge of decisions think the situation is better than it really is. According to our source, we have other News for you.