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Youth unemployment in Nigeria is the level of unemployment among the youth in Nigeria, typically defined as those aged 18–29 years. A related concept is graduate unemployment which is the level of unemployment among university graduates. In 2019, statistics equate the unemployment rate to 17.69% among Nigerian youths.

Statistics
In the third quarter of 2015, 7.5 million (9.9%) Nigerians were unemployed according to the data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Data further revealed Nigeria’s unemployment rate at the Q2 of 2020 is 27.1% which means that about  21,764,614 (21.7 million) Nigerians remain unemployed. While the youth unemployment in the Q4 of 2020 was calculated to be 42.5%.

According to data from NBS (National Bureau of Statistics), the highest unemployment rate was recorded for youths between ages 15 to 24 at 40.8% and 25 to 34 years at 30.7%.

Causes
Education: 8 out of 10 members of the labor force completed their education at Senior Secondary School.

Economic
The Nigerian economy is based on 70% of the revenue from Oil and Gas.