Data and Statistics

Nigeria: Quick Facts


For a complete list of indicators, refer to the Nigeria Country Data Profile. Refer to the Africa Quick Queryto customize and manage timeseries data on a wide range of topics.

World Bank Sources of Data

Summary Data

• Millennium Development Goals for Nigeria: Targets for reducing poverty, improving health and education, and protecting the environment.
• Nigeria Country Data Profile
• Nigeria-at-a-Glance (PDF)

Data by Topic

• Doing Business Report - Investment Climate Snapshot: Indicators of the cost of doing business by identifying specific regulations that enhance or constrain the business investment, productivity, and growth.     
• Information/Communications/Telecommunications (PDF): ICT infrastructure & access, Computers and the Internet, ICT expenditures, and ICT business & government environment.
• Summary Gender Profile (PDF)

Debt

• World Bank Debt Service: Debt service repayments for World Bank loans and/or credits.
• National External Debt: Total external debt (joint OECD, Bank for International Settlements, IMF, World Bank). 

Poverty Data

• Measuring Poverty in Nigeria.
• Africa Household Survey Databank
  • Survey Navigator
  • Document Navigator
• Africa Development Indicators 2006: Drawn from the World Bank Africa Database, this publication provides the most detailed collection of development data on Africa in one volume. It presents data from 53 African countries and 5 regional country groups, arranged in separate tables or matrices for more than 500 indicators of development.
• World Development Indicators 2006: Information and selected samples from the WDI2006 publication, the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development.
• Main World Bank Data site
  

Other Sources of Data on Nigeria
Please note, the World Bank is not responsible for the content on the following external websites.

African Development Bank

• Statistics from the African Development Bank

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• World Economic Outlook Databases: Source of the World Economic Outlook Reports. You can download macroeconomic data (GDP, Inflation, etc.) tables which list all countries, including Nigeria.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

• Human Development Indicators in Nigeria: Shows Nigeria's ranking in the Human Development Report as well as a broad range of indicators from poverty to demographic trends to women's political participation, etc.

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Selected Health Indicators
• UNAIDS/WHO
  • Epidemological Factsheets on Nigeria: HIV/AIDS prevalence and related indicators.

Other Data Sources

• U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Country information on Nigeria energy and energy- related data and country analysis.