Watch Nigeria change

Moving charts made from published figures. Press play, follow your state, then share the link or save the chart as a video for WhatsApp Status, TikTok or Instagram.

The states race

How the states compare, survey by survey

Every state and the FCT in each Demographic and Health Survey round. The bars re-sort as the figures change; the dashed line is Nigeria as a whole.

FigureFollow a state

North Central
North East
North West
South East
South South
South West
Nigeria 36.8%

2013

Figures exist only for the survey years shown (2013, 2018 and 2024); the movement between them is animation, not data. State figures rest on smaller samples than the national figure. Source: The DHS Program (ICF), Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (DHS Program API).

Nigeria through the years

Nigeria, year by year

Choose a figure and watch its whole published history draw itself, from the first year on record to the latest.

Figure

196045.1M

Each step is a published yearly figure; years without a figure are skipped. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

The economy by sector

What Nigeria's economy is made of

Each sector's share of GDP every year since 1981. Taxes less subsidies on products is the part of GDP not counted in the three sectors.

Services
Industry
Agriculture
Taxes less subsidies

1981

Shares of GDP at market prices, year by year. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

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