Nigeria vs South Africa: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)
Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.
In , Nigeria's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 3.06, compared to South Africa's 32.39. That makes Nigeria's value 90.5% lower than South Africa's.
Nigeria
Rank #139 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 3.06
- Year-over-year
- +0.6%
- 10-year change
- -25.9%
- Peak
- 5.71 (2020)
- Trough
- 3.05 (2024)
South Africa
Rank #2 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 32.39
- Year-over-year
- +0.3%
- 10-year change
- +28.8%
- Peak
- 34.01 (2021)
- Trough
- 22.26 (2007)
Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.