Globally, income levels are classified as low class, middle class, upper middle class, and upper (high) class. Most Nigerians fall into the low class.

See where you fall in dependent on the number of mouths you feed in your family

In these examples, I used 1 million Naira per annum as the bench mark, even though I know most Nigerians don't make that much per annum.

From this, you can factor in your own income and family size and see where you fall into in the income rankings

Bottom line is, if you have a low annual income, there is no point in having a large family. As it is now in Nigeria, personally, if I was living there and having a low income, I will not marry a wife, let alone have one kid, let alone have kids

If you make 1 million Naira per annum and have 2 family members, you are in the middle income level

If you make 1 million Naira per annum and have 5 family members, you are in the low income level

Only 8 percent of Nigerians earn 60 thousand Naira Anand above a month the rest 92 percent earn below that , in every 10 Nigerians 9.2 are poor and that's a fact....Vote out Buhari now

If you make 1 million Naira per annum and have 10 family members, you are in the low income level

If you make 1 million Naira per annum and have 1 family members, you are in the upper middle income level

BUT MANY PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN NIGERIA.

If you make 3 million Naira per annum and have 1 family member (that is you), you are in the high income level

In our hearts we know we are poor but we refuse to confess the truth with our mouths.
*crys* *sobs* *stutters* Toooo taalk truth dey hard us for this countryyyyyyy�

If you make 2 million Naira per annum and have 1 family member (that is you), you are in the upper middle income level

SarkinYarki:
[b]Only 8 percent of Nigerians earn 60 thousand Naira Anand above a month [/b]the rest 92 percent earn below that , in every 10 Nigerians 9.2 are poor and that's a fact....Vote out Buhari now

Tell me this is not true. Oh my God! This if true, is so pathetic and would mean that nearly 49% of Nigerians are in this category below, even when assumed they have only 1 family member (themselves). Of course the average family size in Nigeria is around 6.

Anybody that has land, a dwelling place, not a disabled is not poor let alone extremely poor.

DuBLINGreenb:

In our hearts we know we are poor but we refuse to confess the truth with our mouths.
*crys* *sobs* *stutters* Toooo taalk truth dey hard us for this countryyyyyyy�

That sound absolutely ''zombie-ic'' to me. How can one be poor and know that putting the right people in power will lift him from poverty, yet refuses to do so?

LadyExcellency:
Anybody that has land, a dwelling place, not a disabled is not poor let alone extremely poor.

That may be applicable to Nigerians in the villages who have land and a hut to lay their heads and farm their land to provide basic staples to feed with. If you live in cities (Lagos, Aba, PH, Kano city, etc), and you are renting face-me-I-face-you or other types of apartment, you have low income, you do not farm your own land, and you have kids, you are absolutely poor.

Clearly, one of the major reasons for high poverty rates in Nigeria is family size. Nigeria should start a mandatory population program of no more than 4 family members (2 parents and 2 kids). That would help a lot to reduce poverty.

Igbos (and other Christians in the south), unconsciously or not, have started to reduce their family size, and it is paying off for them. Igbos are among the least affected by poverty in Nigeria, although they are still poor by global standards.