Nigeria worst in global unemployment rate with 33 percent – World StatisticsĀ
The World Statistics has in its latest figure rated Nigeria top among countries with the highest rate of unemployment in the world.
This was disclosed in a tweet on Monday, July 11, 2023 by World Statistics World Statistics hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Georgia State University in the United States of America (USA).
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Neptune Prime reports that the department rated Nigeria as country whose 33.3% of its population are unemployed.
South Africa was rated second in the world with 32.2% while Bosnia and Herzegovina has 29.03%.
The United Kingdom (UK) has 3.8% percent of its population unemployed while the US has 3.6%.
Niger, Cambodia and Qatar have the least of their population unemployed with 0.5%, 0.36% and 0.1% respectively.
See below the rest of the countries captured by World Statistics.
?? Nigeria: 33.3%
?? South Africa: 32.9%
?? Bosnia and Herzegovina: 29.03%
?? Iraq: 15.55%
?? Afghanistan: 13.3%
?? Spain: 13.26%
?? Greece: 10.8%
?? Colombia: 10.5%
?? Ukraine: 10.5%
?? Turkey: 10.2%
?? Iran: 9.7%
?? Finland: 9%
?? Uruguay: 8.7%
?? Chile: 8.5%
?? Brazil: 8.3%
?? Sweden: 7.9%
?? India: 7.7%
?? Italy: 7.6%
?? Portugal: 7.2%
?? Egypt: 7.1%
?? France: 7.1%
?? Argentina: 6.9%
?? Euro area: 6.5%
?? Paraguay: 6.5%
?? Venezuela: 6.4%
?? Pakistan: 6.3%
?? Austria: 5.9%
?? Germany: 5.7%
?? Belgium: 5.6%
?? Indonesia: 5.45%
?? China: 5.2%
?? Canada: 5.2%
?? Saudi Arabia: 5.1%
?? Poland: 5.1%
?? Bangladesh: 4.7%
?? Philippines: 4.5%
?? UK: 3.8%
?? Ireland: 3.8%
?? US: 3.6%
?? Australia: 3.6%
?? Netherlands: 3.5%
?? New Zealand: 3.4%
?? Russia: 3.2%
?? North Korea: 3%
?? Norway: 3%
?? Mexico: 2.9%
?? UAE: 2.75%
?? Japan: 2.6%
?? South Korea: 2.5%
?? Denmark: 2.4%
?? Vietnam: 2.3%
?? Switzerland: 1.9%
?? Singapore: 1.8%
?? Thailand: 1.05%
?? Niger: 0.5%
?? Cambodia: 0.36%
?? Qatar: 0.1%
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