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Key facts
- Currency: Nigerian naira
- Capital city: Abuja
- Region: Western Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 910,770 km²
- Population: 218,541,212
- Political Leader: Muhammadu Buhari (President)
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Nigeria's Central Bank Deletes Then Reinstates Tweet Calling Crypto-Related Directive Fake
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Nigeria's Tunde Onakoya sets global chess record with 60 hour nonstop game
Read: Al Jazeera
2024-04-20
A Nigerian chess champion plays the royal game for 60 hours -- a new global chess record
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2024-04-20
Metrics
General information
Business
| GDP | 472,625,000,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 18.85 annual % |
| Self-employed | 85.85 % of total employment |
| Unemployment | 3.58 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 84.37 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 686,440.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 0.27 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 111,978.00 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 81.80 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 18.20 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 0.00 % of total |
| Net energy imports | -93.03 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 5.24 births per woman |
| Forest area | 214,636 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 18.88 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 38,585.80 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 13.20 years |
| Methane emissions | 151,060.00 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 41,196.30 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 108,093,075 |
| Male Population | 110,448,136 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 82.51 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 882,025.00 km² |
| Rural population | 101,575,770 |
| Urban land area | 25,189.90 km² |
| Urban population | 116,965,442 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 2.72 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 37.12 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 13.08 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 69.76 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 3.38 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.34 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 0.50 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 53 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 3.50 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 59.50 % of population |
| Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence | 3,646,000 |
| Individuals using the Internet | 55.36 % of population |
| Net migration | -59,996 |
| Press freedom | 2.14 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 223,000 |
| Democracy score | 4.44 |
| Democracy type | Hybrid regime |
| Military expenditure | 0.64 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 3.61 % |
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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