And in November, the National Bureau of Statistics shocked a bewildered nation with the announcement that as many as 133 million Nigerians, or 63 per cent of the population, were multidimensionally poor. It explained in plain language that Multidimensional Poverty Index measures poverty from the pe...
Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics now estimates that 63% of the population, around 133 million people, are now classed as multidimensionally poor, a 10 percentage point increase from before Buhari's tenure began in 2015. Unemployment sits at 33.3%, ...
In anewly-released reportby theNational Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the country’s unemployment rate increased from 27.1 percent in the second quarter of 2020, to 33.5 percent in the fourth quarter of the same year. This is the highest unemployment rate in 13 years. What this means is that...
It has a total projected population of 5,527,809 in 2016, which grows at 3.2% annually (Na- tional Bureau of Statistics, 2018). The National Bureau of Statistics social statistics report shows that Anambra State is also one of the states with highest residential block of flats in Nigeria ...
The population consisted of 3677 owners and managers of SMEs from three states in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Bayelsa State has 354 SMEs, the number of SMEs in Delta State is 1444 and Edo State has 1879 SMEs (NBS, 2013). The study used convenience sampling to select the area of...
This paper work examined analytically, population growth rate and unemployment rate in Nigeria. Using secondary data retrieved from National Population Commission and National Bureau of Statistic (NBS) which were categorized base on population growth trend, growth rate of population, unemployment rate an...
The 2021 Nigeria Malaria Survey Indicator (2021NMIS) was constructed by the National Malaria Elimination Programme assisted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and National Population Commission (NPC) was implemented by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) [18]. The data...
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) (2011) Nigeria: monitoring the situation of children and women. Nigeria Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2011 Summary Report Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (2013) Report. Abuja, Nigeria, and Rockville, Maryland ...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported today that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.28 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2019. The latest GDP figure is 0.17 percentage point higher than the 2.12 per cent recorded in Q2 2019. ...
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, more than half (60%) of the population in Nigeria is engaged in street trading [7]. Thus, obtaining more information on the composition of the informal economy has sparked renewed interest among researchers in developing countries such as Nigeria. ...