Key findings: Labour Force Survey – Quarter 3, 2024
The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) has published the findings of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for the third quarter (Q3) of 2024. Data collection was conducted in August 2024 through a household-based survey that provides key statistics into Rwanda’s labor market mainly on labour force participation, employment, unemployment, and underutilization.
Key Findings:
Rwanda’s Labour Market: Key Insights from the 2024 Q2 Labour Force Survey
The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) published the results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the second quarter of 2024, shedding light on significant trends and developments in the country's labour market. This survey provides crucial data for understanding employment, unemployment, and labour force participation dynamics.
Rwanda’s Unemployment rate drops by 4.3 p.p. in Q1 2024
Figure 1: Tends in Unemployment rate by sex
Unemployment
The latest Labour Force survey (2024 Q1) reveals a significant decline in Rwanda's unemployment rate, dropping by 4.3 percentage points in quarter 1 of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. This remarkable improvement has brought the unemployment rate back to the pre-COVID-19 estimate of 13.1%. In 2024 (Q1), the unemployment rate stood at 12.9%, indicating a positive trend where approximately one person was unemployed for every eight in the labor force.
Unemployment Rate Holds Steady in Q3 2023, Disparities Persist
The latest labour market data for August 2023 (Q3) has been released, revealing interesting trends in the unemployment landscape. While the overall unemployment rate remained at 18.0 percent, slightly declined as anticipated, there were notable variations across different demographic groups.
Rwanda's Unemployment Rate Declines, Yet Gender and Age Disparities Persist
Introduction
Rwanda has seen a promising decline in its unemployment rate, with the latest figures revealing a drop to 16.8 percent, compared to 23.5 percent in May 2022 and 17.3 percent in February 2023. This reduction is a testament to the nation's continued efforts to stimulate economic growth and job creation. However, beneath this overall improvement, significant gender and age disparities persist, demanding attention and targeted strategies to address them effectively.
Unemployment in Rwanda has declined by 7 percentage points
After the hard time of the Covid-19 pandemic, people are putting much pression to the labour market to resume their lives that was much affected by the pandemic. Despite their efforts, Labour under utilizations remains higher. The new standards introduced an innovative framework that recognizes all productive activities, whether paid or unpaid, as work and serve to expand the range of statistics available on different working activities, paid and unpaid, carried out by women and men, including employment, volunteer work, own-use production work, etc.
Rwanda Labour market- Trends of main indicators, 2017-2021(Q4)
Note: UR: Unemployment rate; LFPR: Labour Force Participation rate; EPR: Employment to Population ratio.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures have exposed existing Rwandan society and its economy to the change in all aspects. Despite the risk of mortality, people are also wearied by losing employment or tending to under-utilization.
Trends of Labour market performance indicator in Rwanda -August 2021
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and containment responses have exposed existing Rwandan society and its economy to the change in all aspects; people are also wearied of losing employment or tending to under-utilization
Trends of Labour market performance indicator in Rwanda(May 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic and containment responses have exposed existing Rwandan society and its economy to the change in all aspects. Despite the risk of mortality people are also wearied by losing employment or tending to under-utilization
Covid 19 and its impact on Labour force in Rwanda
According to the Labour Force Survey results of November 2020(Q4), the unemployment rate in Rwanda was 20.3 percent compared to 16.0 percent in August 2020(Q2); indicating an increase of 4.3 percentage points A higher increase was observed among males (5.6 percentage points) as compared to females (2.7 percentage points). The comparison of unemployment rate of May 2020 and the one of November 2020, reveals that it decreased among both males and females with a higher decrease among females (2.6 percentage point) as compared to males (1.0 percentage points)