Top 10 poorest states in Nigeria – According to the National Bureau of Statistics, these 10 states are the poorest in Nigeria with over 70% poverty rate. A survey carried out on the bureau’s website, disclosed that Sokoto remains the poorest state in Nigeria with an 81.2% poverty rate.

1. Sokoto - Sokoto has unfriendly climate conditions with temperature going as high as 45C on a normal day.Most part of the state are rural areas and over eighty percent (80%) of the inhabitants of Sokoto practice one form of agriculture or another.

2. Katsina is a state in North central Nigeria and has the highest poverty prevalence amongst all states in the region.
3. Adamawa Formed in 1991 from the extinct Gongola state, Adamawa has of late been terrorized by the Boko Haram terrorists, disrupting it’s economic development and growth.

4.Gombe is another North eastern state which suffers sporadic attacks from terrorists.

5.Jigawa is another state without no form of good revenue

6. Plateau: Plateau State is the twelfth largest state of Nigeria haunted by some terrorist attacks and tribal clashes from time to time, especially clashes between Fulani herdsmen and its inhabitants.

7.Ebonyi Ebonyi is the only south eastern state among the top 9 poorest country.
8.Bauchi
9. Kebbi
10. Zamfara: Recently the governor was blasted for the “alarming scope of economic dangers and its potential threat to the economic development of the state,” by the Zamfara Budget Working Group.

Niger is the state with the lowest poverty rate which is 33.8%. It was followed by Osun (37.9%) and Ondo (45.7%). Bayelsa (47%) and Lagos (48.6%) have less than 50% poverty rate. The average poverty rate in the Northwest geopolitical zone is 71.4%, which remained the highest in the said area. It is followed by the Northeast region which has 69.1% and the North central region which has 60.7%. Poverty was least dominant in the Southwest (49.8%), South-South (55.5%), and South-East regions (59.5%).

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Mmmmm na wa o. If i should say anything now some people up there will come for my head.

Fear north.

It is surprising why the north will be backward despite ruling this nation for decades. I think it has to do with illiteracy. A lot need to be done in curbing the high level of illiteracy.

Op this thread will cause acute migraine for some people who have sworn to be perpetual foes to south westerners

Oluwole source.

Hit thread if only with a good source to go.

KanoAbiaBabe:
It is surprising why the north will be backward despite ruling this nation for decades. I think it has to do with illiteracy. A lot need to be done in curbing the high level of illiteracy.

Hmm. May be u are right though.

KanoAbiaBabe:
It is surprising why the north will be backward despite ruling this nation for decades. I think it has to do with illiteracy. A lot need to be done in curbing the high level of illiteracy.

There is no greater devil than illiteracy.

mynd1:
Hmm. May be u are right though.

Yes sister. Education has a lot of role to play in the development of a society. Education supports economic development and social reform,it also helps in improving the quality of life of its citizens.

Agimor:
There is no greater devil than illiteracy.

Illiteracy is the root cause of all evil

the source is questionable. real oluwole? when was d survey conducted? by who n how? wat are d indicators- education, agriculture, health, ease of doing business etc n it s painful that many of you here are pretty ' illiterates'.

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Every man giving birth without means of taking care of such children is a criminal and should be jail.
And that is the practice all-over the country with higher ratio favoring the north.

The government can only be blame for not providing a policy to regulate child birth like China, no wonder the available institutions can not cater for our present population

This is a stinking and unreliable old list.

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OP, do you mean Niger as in the Niger state I know or another Niger state? How come it has the lowest poverty level compared to states like Bayelsa? If this is true, its strange.

Old Statistics

Ebonyi State can't be poor after generating the highest IGR in South East in the past 4 years.

WHAT ABOUT KOGI?

Halfricanadian turn up!

I don't believe this list

Based on what criteria?

Good

No wonder! Cc:lalasticlala

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Op why just kebbi sabi say u no respect kebbi at all but say the useless cave that you call a state which u sabi come frm which i no wan no the name be better than kebbi. Put dis post inside dust bin i bi trash

Outdated list Osun state should be first on the list