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Nigeria LABOR
The size of Nigeria's labor force was difficult to
calculate
because of the absence of accurate census data. The labor
force
increased from 18.3 million in 1963 to 29.4 million in
1983.
Census data apparently understated the number of
self-employed
peasants and farmers, but estimated that the proportion of
Nigerians employed in agriculture, livestock, forestry,
and
fishing fell from 56.8 percent in 1963 to 33.5 percent in
1983.
The percentage of the labor force employed in mining rose
from
0.1 percent in 1963 to 0.4 percent in 1983. Exactly
comparable
data were lacking on manufacturing, but from 1965 to 1980
industry's share of the labor force rose from 10 percent
to 12
percent whereas the services sector grew from 18 percent
to 20
percent of the labor force (see
table 8, Appendix).
Data as of June 1991
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