Female unemployment rate in Nigeria as of Q4 2020, according to the recent labour force report, released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), increased to 35.2% from 31.6% recorded in Q2 2020.
According to the report, a total of 61.63 million women were in the working population (15 – 64 years of age) as of Q4 2020 accounting for 50.5% of the total working population.
However, only 30.15 million of these women were willing and able to work, labour force, which represents about 43.3% of the total labour force in the period under review.
The Q4 2020 female unemployment rate of 35.2% is a rise from the 31.6% recorded as at the last time the labour force report was released by the NBS, although the under-employment rate declined from 31.0% in Q2 2020 to 24.2% in Q4 2020.
A closer look at the numbers showed that women in the labour force fell from 38.63 million in Q2 2020 to 30.15 million in Q4 2020.
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