Is Nigeria’s unemployment rate 18.8%, as widely tweeted?
Claim
"Nigeria's unemployment rate is 18.8%"
Tweet by Spectator Index account
(Feb 2018)
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Verdict
Rate was 18.8% in 2017's 3rd quarter
Tag: statistics
Factsheet: FACTSHEET: South Africa’s official poverty numbers
What proportion of South Africans live in poverty? How are the numbers calculated? And who is most vulnerable? This factsheet presents South Africa’s official poverty estimates.
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Do mothers & newborns run a higher risk of dying in Nairobi, as governor Sonko said?
Kenya’s freshly elected representatives are full of plans and promises. Nairobi governor Mike Sonko pledged to improve health standards, saying mothers and newborns have a higher chance of dying in childbirth in his county than a far flung rural one.
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Are 70% of Kenyans who can work jobless? Union chief mangles numbers
Unemployment remains a challenge to most African governments. Kenya’s no less, but debating solutions should rest on accurate information.
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No, there is no ‘miracle recipe’ that cures diabetes
A Philippine doctor claims to have discovered a recipe – consisting of sweet peppers, eggs and sea salt – that eliminates diabetes “in five minutes”. But it has not been scientifically proven.
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Did Uganda receive more refugees daily in 2016 than many European nations did the whole year?
The top official of an international charity said Uganda received more refugees daily at the end of 2016 than many wealthy European countries did the entire year. Do the numbers add up?
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No data shows that 800,000 Nigerians live in South Africa
As xenophobic violence rears its head again in South Africa, a widely quoted figure of how many Nigerians live in South Africa is completely unsupported.
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Claim that 13 million international migrants live in SA wildly incorrect
A South African political party leader’s incorrect claim that 13 million foreign-born migrants live in the country is in part based on a debunked claim shared by an investigative television show.
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Correct? Nigeria’s Kogi state had no working fire engine when I took over – governor
The governor of Nigeria’s Kogi state recently said there was no working fire engine for the region’s 4.4 million people when he took office. We looked into this claim.
Blog post: ANALYSIS: Mapping, understanding & preventing xenophobic violence in SA
In an open letter to the South African president, one of the country’s big labour unions and an organisation representing African migrant communities called for the identification of areas where xenophobic attacks might occur. Migration expert Alexandra Hiropoulos introduces Xenowatch, a project aiming to provide the building blocks to do that.