Nigeria vs South Africa: Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate)
Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.
In , Nigeria's Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (modeled ILO estimate) was 80.70, compared to South Africa's 49.88. That makes Nigeria's value 61.8% higher than South Africa's.
Nigeria
Rank #3 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 80.70
- Year-over-year
- 0.0%
- 10-year change
- +6.5%
- Peak
- 80.71 (2024)
- Trough
- 74.89 (2020)
South Africa
Rank #118 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 49.88
- Year-over-year
- +0.2%
- 10-year change
- +4.5%
- Peak
- 49.88 (2025)
- Trough
- 44.15 (2020)
Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS), CC BY 4.0.