🇳🇬 Nigeria
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Every statistic we track for Nigeria — 124 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$9,994
60.1 yrs
4.79
0.31
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 4.4 | #15/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.7 | #2/172 | 2023 |
| Internally Displaced People | 3,544,519 | #8/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 18.3 | #216/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 170.9 | #7/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 242.6 | #6/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 266.2 | #56/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 478,150 | #12/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 63% | #111/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 62.5% | #182/214 | 2024 |
| Internet Users | 41.2% | #153/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 99.6 | #139/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 25% | #56/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 12.7% | #150/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 2 | #152/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 11.6 | #1/199 | 2024 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 4.3% | #147/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 36.1% | #114/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 60.1 | #6/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 60.1 | #166/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 64.5 | #160/186 | 2020 |
| Suicide Rate | 8.8 | #88/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 3.3% | #167/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 19.9% | #27/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 47 | #170/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 0.3% | #110/112 | 2023 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.6 | #158/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 320 | #141/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 37.9 | #139/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 25% | #107/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 32% | #41/48 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 48.1 | #109/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 79% | #1/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 68% | #2/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Global Peace Index | 2.9 | #15/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 8.4 | #60/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 17.2 | #59/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 78.8% | #115/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 25.8% | #115/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.3 | #91/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 32% | #49/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 4.6% | #83/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 7.1 | #15/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 44 | #123/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 9.2 | #60/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 72.7% | #52/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.8 | #106/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.7 | #123/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.3 | #106/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.2 | #26/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.5 | #104/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0 | #136/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.1 | #102/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.6 | #164/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 15% | #38/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 80.9% | #85/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 91.2% | #21/143 | 2018 |
| Secular Values | 0.3 | #56/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.3 | #59/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 7.1% | #108/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 22.6% | #21/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.3 | #80/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 3.9 | #113/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 4.3 | #35/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 68.8% | #94/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 66.2% | #68/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.6 | #102/153 | 2017 |
Latest available period per indicator; rank is the country's position among all countries with data. Sources are credited on each indicator page.