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Africa > Nigeria > Labor

NIGERIAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [66th of 77]
Employees, agriculture, female > % of female employment 1.9 % Time series [57th of 86]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 11.2 % Time series [63rd of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 29.9 % Time series [49th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 86.8 % Time series [5th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 2.9 % Time series [77th of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 22 % Time series [62nd of 94]
Female economic activity growth 2% [82nd of 156]
force with tertiary education > % of total 27.3 % Time series [8th of 52]
force, total 47,868,360 Time series [10th of 184]
Labor force 50,130,000 Time series [9th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 70%, industry 10%, services 20%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 10% Time series [16th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 20% Time series [16th of 29]
Regulation 43 [94th of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 76 [61st of 123]
Rigidity of employment index 21 Time series [136th of 166]
Unemployment rate 4.9% Time series [60th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 16.9 % Time series [8th of 101]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 18,000,000 $ Time series [109th of 149]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; calculated on the basis of data on the economically active population and total population from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Estimates and Projections of the Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, 4th ed., rev. 2. Database. Geneva; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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