2019 Poverty & Inequality in Nigeria report published by The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics shows that 82.9 million Nigerians can be classified as poor by national standards (40.09 of Nigeria’s population).

Breakdown:
States with the highest poverty rate
Sokoto – 87.73%
Taraba – 87.72%
Jigawa – 87.02%
Ebonyi – 79.76
Adamawa – 75.41

States with the lowest poverty rate
Lagos – 4.50%
Delta – 6.02%
Osun – 8.52%
Ogun – 9.3%
Oyo – 9.8%

In terms of family size, only 17.88% of Nigerians with a family size of 2-4 are poor, while 67.27% of those with a family size of 10-19 and 77.66% of those with a family size of 20 and above live below the poverty line.

As at the end of the fourth quarter of 2019, Nigeria’s public debt portfolio stood at N27.40trn ($84.05bn). This represents an increase of 4.54% when compared to the third quarter of 2019, when the country recorded a total public debt of N26.21trn. These figures are becoming increasingly alarming considering the fact that as at Q1 2013, Nigeria’s public debt stood at only N7.53trn.

The external component of the Q4 2019 debt rose by a whopping 9% within 3 months! The external debt now accounts for 33% of Nigeria’s total debt stock.

Also, the domestic debt stock at N18.37trn ($56.37bn) accounted for 67% of the total nation’s debt. This represents a 2% increase when compared to the N17.94trn of the previous quarter.

Putting the figures in perspective; the country borrowed a total of N37,620 every second in the last 12 months (i.e. Q4 2018 to Q4 2019).

Also, should we decide to distribute Nigeria’s debt profile across the country’s population of 200 million, each citizen currently will owe the sum of N137,007.

It is worth noting that the bulk of the domestic debts originated from the Federal Government, with the FG accounting for 79.59% of the total domestic debts.

Source: Databod

We did a detailed review of the revenue profile of Nigerian states and regions and the results are startling.

The North-East geopolitical zone ranked as the most dependent region on federal allocation. This isn’t really surprising considering the fact that the region has been battling insurgency for over a decade. A whopping 85% of the revenue of North Eastern states were allocations from the federal government.

On the other hand, the South East surprisingly ranked as the second most dependent region on federal allocation. No one would expect a state in the eastern part of Nigeria to be more dependent on federal allocation than Kaduna! This is rather mind-boggling as the eastern part of Nigeria has always been seen to be industrious and hardworking.

Looking at the chart below, Federal Allocation accounts for about 76% of the total revenue of the states in the South East in the year 2019. This huge dependence on federal allocation raises the question of how the region will survive if it attains its much-vaulted nationhood of Biafra.

A further look at the figures indicates that the South West is the most independent region of the lot. The region only has a 36% dependence on Federal Government allocation, while about 64% of income is generated within the region as IGR. Of course, within the South West, there is variation in performance, with Lagos and Ogun states performing better than the other 4 states in the region in terms of Internally Generated Revenues.

The South-South was found to be the second most independent region with a 69.30% dependence on Federal Government allocation.

For further information on how each region faired in 2019, check the charts below. Visit Databod for the full breakdown.

Are private schools are better than public schools? This has been a topic of interest to a wide spectrum of the Nigeria society – parents, academics and government officials. While the majority opinion seems to be that the private schools are better than the public ones, there is no empirical data to support this.

Most parents recognize the importance of quality education to the future of their children. Hence, the sacrifice they make to ensure that their kids have the best in education. And to a lot of people, quality education equals private school education. Some parents spend as much as 60 percent of their income on school fees.
But, are these high costs of private education justified?

A look at students’ performances in WASSCE in public and private secondary schools across Nigeria over three years paints a rather surprising picture.

In 2016, 172,821 students from different private secondary schools across Nigeria sat for the WAEC examination. Out of which a total of 63,077 made five credits and above including English and Mathematics. This represents 36.5% of the total number of students that sat for the exam.

On the other hand, across the country, a total of 1,543,974 public secondary students sat for WAEC exam in 2016. 807,780 of these public schools students made five credits and above. This represents 52.3% of the total number of students.

2017 data paints an even stupefying picture. That year, only 24% (32,000) of the 133,258 students that sat for WASSCE in private schools made 5 credits and above (including Mathematics and English). On the other hand, the pass rate (credit in 5 or more subjects including English and Mathematics) for public schools was 56.53% (881,039) out of a total of 1,558,452 that sat for the exams.

While in 2018, 33.81% of the total students in private schools made five credits and above, while 48.15% of those in public schools made five credits and above (including Mathematics and English).

See the graph below for a detailed breakdown.

Nigeria borrowed a total of $221 every second in the last 12 months (i.e. Q1 2018 to Q1 2019).
As at the end of the first quarter of 2019, Nigeria’s public debt stood at N24.95trn (which is $81.27bn using CBN's official exchange rate). The country’s external component of that debt stood at N7.86trn ($25.61bn), while domestic debt stood at N17.09trn ($55.66bn).
This debt figure indicates that every Nigerian is indebted to the tune of N146,160 the country's debt figure is compared to its population.
However, it is worth noting that the bulk of the domestic debts originated from the Federal Government with the Federal Government accounting for 76.75% of the total domestic debts.

Source: Databod

A total of 4,529,153 movements were recorded across all Nigerian borders in 2018, this is a 22% increase compared to the 3,715,268 recorded in 2017. 2,206,568 (49%) of those trips were arrival trips, while 2,322,585 (51%) of them were departures.
The report also highlighted that a total of 209 irregular migrants were intercepted, 34 suspected smugglers were arrested and a total of 453 human trafficking and child labor victims rescued.
A total of 1,011,158 Nigerians applied for international passports across different parts of the country in 2018.
In terms of geopolitical zones, the South West dominated the passport application figures with a total of 474,265 applicants. North Central, with a total of 175,586 passport applicants emerged the zone with the second number of applicants followed by South-South, South East, North West, and North East with 144840, 102563, 102354 and 27762 respectively.

Source: Databod

Nigerian passport ranked 12th worst passport to hold in the world and the 6th worst passport in Africa. This was revealed in the just-released passport Index by Henley & Partners for the second half of 2019.

It must also be noted that; Nigeria ranks as the country with the biggest fall in Passport strength in the last ten years (falling from 67th in 2009 to the current ranking of 98th).

In Africa, Seychelles remains the country with the strongest passport with access to 150 counties, and a world rank of 27. This is closely followed by Mauritius which gives access to 145 countries without a prior VISA and a world rank of 31.

Here are the top 15 worst passports in the world
1. Afghanistan
2. Iraq
3. Syria
4. Pakistan
5. Somalia
6. Yemen
7. Libya, Palestinian Territory, Sudan
8. Nepal
9. Bangladesh, Eritrea, Iran, Lebanon, North Korea
10. Kosovo
11. DR Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka
12. Djibouti, Nigeria
13. Burundi, Cameroon, Congo (Rep.), Liberia
14. Angola, Egypt, Haiti, Jordan, Laos, Vietnam
15. Algeria, Central African Republic.


Source: Databod

Nigerian bureau of statistics recently released the latest gender statistical data across Nigeria. The data showed a higher percentage in men, with 50.8% of the country’s citizen being men, while 49.2% were women. This is in contrast to the popular belief among Nigerians that the country has more women than men.
In terms of life expectancy, the women have a life expectancy of 51 years, while the men have a life expectancy of 47 years. This means that Nigerians on an average have a life expectancy of 49 years.
The literacy rate among the youth between the ages of (15-24) showed that 70.90% of the men are educated, while 59.3% of the women are educated.
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The Nigerian government in its bid to ease the effect of petroleum pump price on its citizens expended over #9.3 trillion on fuel subsidy over the past ten years. This has continued to raise burning questions in different quarters, with some calling for an end to the payment, while others expressing the need for government to continue the subsidy.

From 2008 to 2010, the federal government spent a total of #1.7 trillion on fuel subsidy, however, in 2011 alone, the federal government spent over #2 trillion subsidizing fuel. This sudden increase instigated the then President in the person of Goodluck Jonathan, to announce the removal of fuel subsidy on the 1st of January, 2012. However, the announcement was greeted by several protests across the country, with many stating their indignation at the removal, while others expressed their displeasure at the insensitivity of the government for making such an announcement on the 1st day of the year.
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Recent statistics on Nigeria’s debt profile shows that at the end of 2018, Nigeria incurred a total foreign debt of $25bn thereby increasing the nation’s total debt to $79billion. This is an 8.51% increase from Q2 2018 figures when Nigeria’s total debt stood at $73billion (N24.4trillion).

Of the total amount, the total domestic debt accounts for N16.63trn while total foreign debt accrued was $25billion.

Click the link to learn more; http://databod.com/nigerias-debt-profile-q4-2018/

About half of Nigeria’s population is made up of women. However, it is quite surprising and unfortunate that women occupy a very marginal political leadership position in the country. Rather than get better, the outcome of the 2019 general election has shown a worsening of the abysmal representation of women in government.

Since independence, Nigeria has had very little by way of women participation in the Nation’s governance. The recently concluded 2019 general elections saw 73 candidates vie for the position of presidency, however, only 7 of those 73 were women.

For deputy governors, the 2007 and 2015 elections produced female Deputy Governors in 6 states which remains the highest till date. The recently concluded 2019 election saw only 3 states having female deputy Governors.

The 9th House of Representatives is expected to have the lowest number of women representation since independence. The 2019 election results showed that of the 360 available seats, only 11 of them will be occupied by females. Contrast this with what obtained in 2011 when 26 women won election into the house (the highest till date).

For a more illustrative look at women representation in political leadership position in Nigeria since 1999, please see the infographic below.

SOURCE: Databod: Gender Inequality in Nigerian politics

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Take a look at the PVC collection statistics as released by INEC.

Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina & Rivers are the top 5 states with the highest number of people who collected their PVC's for the election.

Katsina state is the state with the highest PVC collection rate. More than 98% of registered voters in Katsina collected their PVCs.

Image Source: Databod

According to recently released data by the National Bureau of Statistics, over 4,355 packaged water products were registered in 2017. Packaged water was the most registered commodity by NAFDAC. Packaged water (popularly known as “pure water”) alone accounted for more than one-third of the total number of product registration applications.

Following packaged water was food with 2459 products registered, human drugs with 1972 products registered, cosmetics with 1231 products and herbal drugs with 348 products registered. These are the top 5 product categories with the highest number of product registrations.

What's your opinion about "pure water" business?

Source: Databod Registered Products Statistics

According to data released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, Rivers state tops the chart for the number of suicides in Nigeria in 2017. The total number of suicide cases recorded in Nigeria in 2017 was 332 with Rivers state alone recording 105 suicide cases. This massive number accounts for over 31% of the nation’s total suicide rate.

Accounting for less than half of Rivers state, Lagos closed in with 47 recorded suicide cases. Borno followed suit with 45 cases while Katsina and Ogun had 23 and 20 suicide cases respectively. Jigawa, Niger and Osun state had 2 suicide cases while Gombe and Taraba had just one each.

For attempted suicide, a total of 196 cases were reported. Rivers had the highest records with 112 cases. Followed by Edo with 54, Ekiti with 8, Lagos with 5 and Ogun with 4 cases. For the states with the least recorded attempted suicide cases, Gombe had 2, while Bayelsa, Kano, Kwara and Niger state had one each.

Suicide remains a very fragile topic to broach in Nigeria. It is abhorred by almost every culture and religion. More so, the government has strict laws and suitable sentences for persons charged with suicide. How ironical for a nation that does little or nothing for its citizens!

What do you think could be the cause of the high suicide rates?

SOURCE: Databod

Gender representation in the governance of the nation has remained radically bias. From 1999 till 2018, the percentage of women occupying positions of authority has fluctuated between 5% to 10%. The female community still remains vastly unrepresented in both executive and legislative positions.

Statistics show that a woman has never been elected president or vice president in Nigeria. No woman has been elected governor of a state. Also, only five females have been appointed deputy governors in any state within almost a decade.

The infographic below gives more details.

Will Nigeria ever have a female president or governor?

SOURCE: Databod Nigeria

According to the latest data released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, 9,383 road accidents were recorded in Nigeria with 66,998 people involved in these road accidents in 2017. This is a slight increase from 2016 where 65,467 people were involved in road accidents.

peed violations like overspeeding and maniacal driving were recorded as the major cause of these road accidents, showing the Cars, Minibuses, and Motorcycles as the vehicles involved in a very high percentage of the accidents.
FCT, Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, and Nasarawa are recorded as the states where the most accidents occurred.

See more in the infographic below.

SOURCE: Databod Road Accident Statistics

According to World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 3.2 million children were living with HIV at the end of 2013, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Majority of them acquire HIV from their HIV-infected mothers during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. The number of children (younger than 15 years) more than doubled from 2009 to 2013, from 355 000 to 740 000.

In a recent statistics released by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the number of children (0-14 years) living with HIV/AIDS in Africa has increased to 1,397,000, doubling again in the last 4 years, with Nigeria having the highest number of children (260,000) living with HIV.

It is estimated that 90% of the world’s HIV-infected children live in Africa, and more than half a million die of AIDS each year.

Full Story: http://databod.com/demography/top-20-countries-number-children-0-14-living-hiv/

According to data released by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 13,394,945 passengers traveled by air in Nigeria in 2017.

Here are some other statistics:

1. 214,358 flights were recorded in 2017
2. 9,458,521 passengers traveled domestically
3. 3,936,424 passengers took international flights
4. Top 3 airports by passenger traffic:
(1) Murtala Muhammed Airport
(2) Nnamdi Azikwe Airport
(3) Portharcourt International Airport

Check the image for more statistics.

Source: http://databod.com/infographics/nigeria-air-traffic-statistics-2017/

According to the latest information released by Debt Management Office (DMO), Nigeria's current debt stands at $60billion. Here are more statistics from the press release:

- Amount borrowed per second in 2017: $1,902
- Total Debt: $60billion
- Total Domestic Debt (incl. state governments): $44billion
- Total foreign Debt: $16billion
- Debt per citizen: N115,920 ~ $322

Source: Databod

According to the data released by the NBS, there are over 72,000 inmates in Nigeria's prisons. This is quite unfortunate as the total capacity of all 240 prisons in Nigeria is just about 50,000.

Here are some other interesting statistics:
- 5 out of every 10 prisoner is a Muslim.

- 98% of prison inmates are men.

- Top 3 crimes committed by prisoners:
(1) Stealing
(2) Robbery
(3) Assault

- Top 5 States with most inmates:
(1) Lagos
(2) Rivers
(3) Kano
(4) Delta
(5) Ogun

- Most Common Age of Prisoners: 26-50yrs

SOURCE: http://databod.com/infographics/nigeria-prison-statistics-incarceration-rates-states-gender-religion-gender-others/

By the beginning of January 2018, all 36 states in Nigeria had presented their spending/budget plans for the year. A cursory glance shows that Cross River state has the highest budget figure of 1.3 trillion naira, closely followed by Lagos state with 1.04 trillion naira.

As can be seen from the Databod chart, the top 5 states in terms of budget size are Cross river, Lagos, Akwa-ibom, Rivers and Delta states respectively. On the other hand, Yobe had the lowest budget proposal. Yobe is closely followed by Taraba, Enugu, Ekiti and Gombe in the league of states with the least budget.

However, looking at the budget figures does not tell the full story. Rather, it can paint a misleading picture.

Anyone interested in the future of their state should look at their state’s per-capita spend data. In some ways, the data is a roadmap of a state’s future prospect (especially the capital component). In the chart below, we have taken a look at the Budget-Per-Capita of Nigeria states.

Just as it does in overall budget size, Cross river still leads the pack in Budget-Per-Capital. In second place comes Bayelsa, followed by Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi and Rivers. Contrary to what we would have expected, Lagos is not even in the top five. Rather, Lagos comes 8th in the league.

SOURCE: http://databod.com/economy/nigeria-state-proposed-2018-budget/

Debt is not neccesarily bad. Many organizations borrow money to fund their growth and expansion. So do governments. But it becomes a problem when a borrower has nothing tangible to show for its accumulated debt stock. It gets even more worrying if the debt stock becomes unsustainable (in terms of ability to pay back).

So, how do Nigeria states measure up on their debt profiles and ability to service it? We took a look at the debt and dept-per-capita of Nigeria states.

Lagos leads the pack with more than 1.44trillion naira in debt. Kaduna, Edo, Cross River & Enugu make up the top 5.

Looking at the debt-per-head (per capita) figures, each Lagosian owes an average of N25,288. Meanwhile, Edo comes second with each citizen owing N18,538. Cross-River comes third with each citizen of the state owing an average of N15,995. (See the chart below for the full list)

It is important to note that, while a state like Lagos may lead the league tables for indebtedness but then, the state equally has the most capacity to pay back/service it. States like Taraba, Borno, Yobe might have the least debt stock, but then, these are states that have the hold the least promises as financial entities. In other words, they have the least capacity and opportunity to borrow money.

SOURCE: http://databod.com/economy/debt-profile-nigeria-36-states-detailed-breakdown/

Check out this infographic detailing the top 5 searches across each category: https://www.nairaland.com/4233057/top-searches-google-nigeria-2017#63273729

Google announced the results of the 2017 Year in Search offering unique perspectives on 2017's major moments and top trends based on searches made in Nigeria.

We have decided to compile the full list into an infographic.

Check it out below.

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In a recent study carried out by Zipjet, a UK based company, Lagos has been ranked as the most stressful city in Africa and the 3rd most stressful city in the world.

The study by Zipjet was conducted by studying 500 locations based on data relating to 17 categories covering infrastructure, pollution levels, finance and citizens' well being. This determined a ranking of 150 cities with available data on all factors relating to the study.

Check out the list of the most stressful cities in the image below:

SOURCE: http://databod.com/general/most-stressful-cities-in-africa/

Yyeske:
OP if may ask, who accumulated much of that debt and whose regime?

Hi, you can check here for the full breakdown: http://databod.com/economy/nigeria-debt-profile-2007-2017

In 2006, Nigeria paid about $12.4bn to its foreign creditors in other to enjoy the $18bn debt write off, from the country’s total external debt of about $30bn. Nigerians heaved a sigh of relieve from the crippling debt overhang.

However, since 2010, Nigeria's debts have been increasing at an alarming rate. The rate of growth in Nigeria’s debt profile between 2015 and 2017 is particularly worrisome.

In just 12 months (July 2016 - July 2017), Nigeria borrowed an average of $2,029 per second.

As at June 2017, Nigeria's total debt stood at $64billion i.e. Total Domestic debt = $49billion. Total foreign debt = $15billion. Using the official population figure of 186million, the total debt per citizen is $344 ~ N105,000.


Here are more stats: http://databod.com/economy/nigeria-debt-profile-2007-2017/

Nigeria roads are unsafe. This is a fact.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) data, Nigeria ranks 191 out of 192 countries in the world with un-safe roads with 162 death rate per 100,000 population from road traffic accident.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its 2016 Road Transport Data, 11, 363 road accidents were recorded in 2016. A total of 5,053 Nigerians got killed in the road accidents recorded in the period under review while 30,105 others sustained varying degrees of injuries.

Here are some statistics about road accidents in Nigeria:
- FCT, Kaduna, Niger, Nasarawa, Ogun & Kano are the top 5 states with most road accidents in Nigeria.
- Private Cars & Motorcycles are responsible for more than half of accidents in Nigeria.
- 1 in 3 accidents is caused by violation of speed rules (Overspeeding, etc.)

Check out more facts in the infographic below.

SOURCE: http://databod.com/general/nigeria-road-accident-statistics/