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Nigeria: Wage and salaried workers, total

13.85percent · 2025+10.6% since 2015

Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Nigeria from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202513.848
202413.583
202313.33
202213.076
202112.865
202012.388
201913.425
201813.208
201712.98
201612.741
201512.52
201412.232
201311.874
201211.519
201111.158
201010.711
200910.211
20089.79
20079.33
20068.87
20058.395
20047.883
20037.332
20026.805
20016.367
20006.089
19995.826
19985.632
19975.502
19965.34
19955.17
19944.992
19934.861
19924.696
19914.409

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wage-and-salaried-workers-total (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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