Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose to 5.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics has said.
The bureau said this in its Nigeria Labour Force Survey (NLFS) report for Q1 2024 released on Tuesday.
“The Unemployment rate increased to 5.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2024 from 5.0 per cent in Q3 2023,” the NBS said.
A breakdown of the report showed that the labour force participation rate among the working-age population declined to 77.3 per cent…
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