Bulgaria vs Nigeria: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Bulgaria

3.5%

in 2025

Nigeria

3.5%

in 2024

Bulgaria rank

132nd

Nigeria rank

134th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Bulgaria
Nigeria

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 3.5% against 3.5% in Nigeria, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 10 shared years of data; in 2011 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 132nd and Nigeria ranks 134th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Bulgaria
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Nigeria
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates
Unit: %
Source: Labour Force Statistics, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 185 places, 5,169 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon. Figures refer to national estimates and may not be fully comparable across countries.