Federal Government’s priority for creation of employment opportunities

Work Force Statistics

Engineering Post Report

Unemployment rate of the labour force in the country  in 2006-07 was 6.2 percent  per annum  which decreased to 5.5 percent  in 2009=10, showed little upward trend in  2014-15 when it increased to  5.9 percent and further went up a little to 6.3 percent in 2019-20, according to some interests facts and figures available from official sources concerned.

Labour force on the whole  was 50.5 million in  2006-07, 53.7 million in  2009-10, 61.04 million in 20124-15 and 71.8 million in 2019-20.

Employed labour force  was 47.3 million in 2006-07,  50.8 million in 2009-10, 57..4 million in 2014-15 and 67.3 million in 2019-20.

No data was available from  official sources  for the recent years  2020-21 to 2022-23 somehow.