Nigeria
Nigeria in numbers
39 measures of Nigeria from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.91% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.76B in 2025
- Military spending per person$9 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel223,000 people in 2020
- National power1.16% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.23% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports21 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2022
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Nigeria with…
- Nigeria vs India
- Nigeria vs China
- Nigeria vs United States
- Nigeria vs Indonesia
- Nigeria vs Pakistan
- Nigeria vs Brazil
- Nigeria vs Bangladesh
- Nigeria vs Russia
- Nigeria vs Ethiopia
- Nigeria vs Mexico
- Nigeria vs Japan
- Nigeria vs Egypt
- Nigeria vs Philippines
- Nigeria vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Nigeria vs Vietnam
- Nigeria vs Iran
- Nigeria vs Türkiye
- Nigeria vs Germany
- Nigeria vs Thailand
- Nigeria vs Tanzania
- Nigeria vs United Kingdom
- Nigeria vs France
- Nigeria vs South Africa
- Nigeria vs Italy
- Nigeria vs Kenya
- Nigeria vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Nigeria vs Colombia
- Nigeria vs South Korea
- Nigeria vs Sudan
- Nigeria vs Uganda
- Nigeria vs Spain
- Nigeria vs Argentina
- Nigeria vs Canada
- Nigeria vs Angola
- Nigeria vs Saudi Arabia
- Nigeria vs Poland
- Nigeria vs Mozambique
- Nigeria vs Ghana
- Nigeria vs Madagascar
- Nigeria vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Nigeria vs Cameroon
- Nigeria vs Niger
- Nigeria vs Australia
- Nigeria vs Mali
- Nigeria vs Burkina Faso
- Nigeria vs Malawi
- Nigeria vs Zambia
- Nigeria vs Chad
- Nigeria vs Somalia
- Nigeria vs Senegal
- Nigeria vs Netherlands
- Nigeria vs Zimbabwe
- Nigeria vs Guinea
- Nigeria vs Benin
- Nigeria vs Rwanda
- Nigeria vs Burundi
- Nigeria vs South Sudan
- Nigeria vs Belgium
- Nigeria vs United Arab Emirates
- Nigeria vs Sweden
- Nigeria vs Israel
- Nigeria vs Austria
- Nigeria vs Switzerland
- Nigeria vs Singapore
- Nigeria vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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