🇳🇪 Niger
Republic of Niger
Every statistic we track for Niger — 136 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$2,232
62.6 yrs
4.94
0.18
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 5.9 | #5/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #13/172 | 2023 |
| Internally Displaced People | 459,585 | #21/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 15.7 | #232/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 17.2 | #62/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 30.2 | #50/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 22.7 | #197/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 85,591 | #30/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 18% | #209/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 21.3% | #209/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 16.7% | #36/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 15.6% | #178/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 63.4 | #185/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 8.2% | #73/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 4.1% | #46/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 3 | #146/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.1 | #190/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 161 | #147/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 40 | #125/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 3.2% | #171/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 46 | #117/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 40.8% | #33/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.8 | #19/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 12.6 | #38/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 24.9 | #17/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 77.9% | #3/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 77.6% | #121/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 44.5% | #77/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.1 | #186/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 53.9% | #13/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 12.8% | #30/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 7.5 | #11/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 47.6 | #101/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 2.2 | #156/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 70% | #65/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.9 | #103/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.9 | #77/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 0.9 | #139/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #54/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.3 | #131/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #74/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.7 | #136/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.4 | #189/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 93.3% | #6/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 85.3% | #2/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 5.3% | #130/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 91.9% | #18/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 86.8% | #39/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 68.6% | #14/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 44.4% | #11/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 82.1% | #3/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 6.6 | #8/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 68.1% | #99/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 63.2% | #79/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 7.2 | #5/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 64.4% | #19/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.