Abstract: Nigeria Population continued to increase in momentum but showing decrease in population growth rate, its effects is a concerned to population experts. This paper work examined analytically, population growth rate and unemployment rate in Nigeria. Using secondary data retrieved from National Population Commission and National Bureau of Statistic (NBS) which were categorized base on population growth trend, growth rate of population, unemployment rate and relationship between population growth and unemployment. The data were presented using descriptive statistics. Thus, to ascertain hypothesis stated, spearmann ranking correlation for the analysis level of relationship between population and unemployment in Nigeria using IBM SPSS. Inc USA. Version 22, 2013. This result indicated that population growth rate was decreasing while unemployment growth rate was on the increase exponentially, alternative hypothesis was accepted at 0.005 (95% confidence level) showing relationship exist between the variables. Thus, valuable suggestions were made to mitigate the effects of population and discouraged its growth.
Keywords: Population, Growth rate, Unemployment, Nigeria.
Title: A Critical Analysis of Population Growth Rate and Unemployment Growth Rate in Nigeria, (2000-2011)
Author: Luka Dung Gyang, Joshua Y. Gwanshak
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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