Country profile · Sub-Saharan Africa · LMC
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Lower middle income. Capital Abuja. Lower-third GDP/cap (LMC · SHORT) - 46 series with wider survey lag risk.
- 232.7 million
- Population
- $252.3 billion
- GDP
- $1,084
- GDP / capita
- 54.6 years
- Life expectancy
Lower-third GDP/cap · SHORT
Nigeria ranks 54th of 217 by total GDP and 217th for life expectancy - a lower middle income economy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- #54
- World GDP rank (of 217)
- $1,084
- GDP per capita
- #217
- Life-expectancy rank
- #6
- Population rank
Nigeria lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#191 of 214) - LMC · SHORT - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Nigeria vs all countries by total GDP
Where this economy's World Bank total GDP sits among every country with a positive observation (inventory signal, not a virtue ranking)
$252,261,880,141 54th of 214 higher than 160 of 214 countries
Countries banded by World Bank total GDP (current US$)
Each bar is a $0.001K-wide band; taller bars hold more countries. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source World Bank, GDP (current US$) · 2026-08-14
Nigeria on the global income map
Nigeria (NGA) sits in the lower GDP/cap third - plotted with largest peers; bubble area = population.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
- Uganda: GDP per capita $1,078 (2024), life expectancy 68.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
Nigeria has a population of 232.7 million, making it the 6th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Its economy totals $252.3 billion - ranked 54th globally by total GDP. GDP per capita stands at $1,084, placing it in the Lower middle income category.
Life expectancy at birth is 54.6 years (ranked 217th globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Abuja.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
💼 Labor & Wages
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 5 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series Nigeria does report.
All indicators for Nigeria
46 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
🫀 Disease Burden
Malaria still registers on Nigeria (79.5 per 100,000 vs fleet midpoint 0.3). Profiles where that cell is zero drop the card entirely. Summary metrics use 2021 data; cause-specific cards show their own observation year.
Non-communicable Diseases
Communicable & Maternal
Injuries & External Causes
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: 2021. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
Compare Nigeria with near GDP/cap peers
Side-by-side pages for the closest ABS GDP/cap neighbours - not a full-roster dropdown.
Read with Nigeria
Nearest GDP/cap peers and LE poles for Nigeria (LMC · SHORT), replacing the old fixed guide and region clone strip.
LMC SHORT
South Sudan · LIC
South Sudan GDP/cap $1,080 is lower by $4 than Nigeria; LE stamp SHORT vs SHORT.
Uganda · LIC
Uganda GDP/cap $1,078 is lower by $6 than Nigeria; LE stamp MID vs SHORT.
Mali · LIC
Mali GDP/cap $1,093 is higher by $9 than Nigeria; LE stamp MID vs SHORT.
Rwanda · LIC
Rwanda GDP/cap $1,060 is lower by $24 than Nigeria; LE stamp MID vs SHORT.
Sub-Saharan Africa WDI roster
Nigeria stamps LMC · SHORT inside Sub-Saharan Africa - open the region roster after the ABS peers.
GDP/cap leaderboard (#191)
Nigeria ranks #191 of 214 on NY.GDP.PCAP.CD under the LMC Atlas band.
What the data says about Nigeria
Nigeria is a lower-middle-income economy, a tier where a large share of economic activity often sits outside formally measured, monetized markets, so official statistics can understate real living standards more than the headline dollar figures suggest. Spread across a large population, Nigeria's national averages can obscure enormous variation between its urban centres and its rural regions, so a single national figure should be read as a rough midpoint rather than a description of most people's actual circumstances. The trend across several years of an indicator usually tells a more useful story than any single year's value.
Nigeria lands in the lower third of GDP/cap (#191 of 214) - LMC · SHORT - so national averages need rural/urban caution.
Nigeria's 232.7 million people and $252.3 billion GDP (54th) yield $1,084 per person in the lower GDP/cap third. Life expectancy 54.6 years (217th, SHORT) and survey lag both matter when reading single-year cells. 46 official points sit in the tables.
Nearest ABS GDP/cap peer: South Sudan at $1,080 (Δ $4). Open that profile or the GDP/cap leaderboard before treating any single year as destiny.
What to do with Nigeria's numbers
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Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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