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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)

Latest news

Nigeria insecurity a 'rude shock' - defence chief

Read: BBC

2024-03-28

What Binance's Exit From Nigeria Means for P2P Bitcoin

Read: Coindesk

2024-03-27

Nigerian parents finally get a chance to see their children who spent more than 2 weeks in captivity

Read: The Star

2024-03-27

Nigerian parents finally get a chance to see their children who spent more than 2 weeks in captivity

Read: The Washington Times

2024-03-27

A Nigerian court has sentenced a Chinese man to death for killing his girlfriend

Read: The Star

2024-03-26

Nigeria's central bank hikes interest rate to 24.75% as it battles sky-high inflation, currency crisis

Read: CNBC News

2024-03-26

Chinese businessman sentenced to death in Nigeria

Read: BBC

2024-03-26

Metrics

Business

GDP 472,625,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 18.85 annual %
Self-employed 85.85 % of total employment
Unemployment 3.83 % 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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Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

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