₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
That's per Capita GDP. Cameroon , Liberia and Benin have populations that are not up to even one eighth of ours . That's why they have higher per Capita GDP.

But even then they are poor. Very poor. I've seen videos of Liberia and Cameroonian and Benin cities. They look like Nigerian ones.

If we had twenty million people we would have a high per Capita GDP and we will be there deceiving ourselves

But even then, we are all poor nations because we are resource dependent

Going by your logic; Cameroon , Liberia and Benin have populations that are not up to even one eighth of ours . That's why they have higher per Capita GDP. Why is India's GDP per capita higher than ours even when we have a very lesser population?. I don't like making comments here because most of you guys on here are economics illiterate. You just open ya mouth and say whatever that comes along with the saliva in your mouth. Rubbish logic!

Osiris12:
see the decline yourself. I’m sure your people are feeling it

Lol..everyone is feeling it even your people but the difference is... We are not complaining... We see opportunities where yours see excuses...

Back the question... Where did Nigeria rank in 2013 among the world's poorest countries??

Compare it to today!!

Just say top 12 poorest countries in the world 🌎 🌎 🌎
It's so sad that Nigeria is now being mentioned in the same breadth as Somalia and arid Niger after years of pillaging by APCFRAUD

Gboom:
Stop displaying ignorance and hatred!
Gross domestic product per capital is arrived at by dividing our total local output by the total population
Ask yourself, if Benin and Cameroun are richer than Nigeria why is our economy bigger than their own

What about India that has 3times our population? Why is theirs higher than ours? Na to dey defend rubbish na wetin Una Sabi

Yes! Cameroon is definitely enjoying a far better economy than Nigeria.

Mabuggi88:
So Cameroon is richer than Nigeria, Terrible, very terrible.
They are busy online defending it, and if someone else say something about it abroad they will gether left and right and center and start writing columns both on print and on social media, tagging the person unpatriotic when they should take that as a motivation. There's absolutely nothing unpatriotic about a fact about one's nation. Imagine Liberia and Benin richer than Nigeria, we're not even up to $1k per Capita

Nigeria is full of wasted opportunities and talents. Imagine being lumped with the poorest nations in the world. I bless the day I renounced my citizenship of this holeshit, shredded my passport and sent it to the nearest Nigerian embassy, instructing them to never grant me entry visa.

Mabuggi88:
Hmmm, you are the ignoramus here, if your country can not produce what is commensurate with the population, it still means they are poorer with respect to other countries and their populations, being below them shows you are poorer. Your size should reflect in your total local outputs. You get the point now? You think you are quoting a just anyhow person?

God bless you jare

Everybody calm down. A certain idiot from a sophisticated region is in charge!

What a people!

Yet the have more resources than the riches countries.

WaleBuraimoh:
Going by your logic; Cameroon , Liberia and Benin have populations that are not up to even one eighth of ours . That's why they have higher per Capita GDP. Why is India's GDP per capita higher than ours even when we have a very lesser population?. I don't like making comments here because most of you guys on here are economics illiterate. You just open ya mouth and say whatever that comes along with the saliva in your mouth. Rubbish logic!

Because India has something we don't have, a diversified economy, and an exporting industrial economy, that's why.

And you don't have to be abusive , you know. It makes you look childish.

mightyhaze:
I don't see the need for back n forths when not necessary. U quoted a post where I rebuffed an argument that says Nigeria is better than Kenya . But is that the reality on ground? Forget what we have and what led to it..fact on ground is that the argument is baseless and false.

Well to ur last sentence I think we should aspire to be even 13th talk more of being 41st on that list. Given how we celebrate small irrelevant wins by this current govt. Moving to 13th will bring alot of orgasm to some Nigerians

You guys, anyone that disagreees with you is APC...

Nigeria is broke because this govenrment , and all the past governments have refused to develop or do something that would make us like the serious nations of the world. Make goods for the world to use.

Good morning. You are talking like this because you think I am defendign this government. I am not.

That's it, don't say because Africa top billionaires are Nigerians, therefore Nigeria is a rich country!
There's no time, Nigeria had ever been referred or classify as a rich country!

DLSReigns:
If we continue to get it wrong in our selection of who leads us, we will continue by default to find our selves in lists like this. What a shame! Upon how blessed we are, we can't do better.
With a quarter of our land size only, some countries on this same list will have no business being there.

The greatest of deceptions says that we have a relevant powerful party somewhere that is not made of politicians that are too selfish to take nigeria away from there


No politician is a right choice as we speak

av heard enough bullcrap


since nobody except me believes in a political reformation, then 4gerrit.

nairalanda1:
You guys, anyone that disagreees with you is APC...

Nigeria is broke because this govenrment , and all the past governments have refused to develop or do something that would make us like the serious nations of the world. Make goods for the world to use.

Good morning. You are talking like this because you think I am defendign this government. I am not.

exactly

all govmnts are 2 blame

at least we can agree on that

but are you willing to support my political reformation?

All European countries are actually poor without Africa. Imagine someone stealing from you to get rich, then turns around to tell you that you are poor.

dahmie2013:
Africa no dey carry last for this one.

Africa matter tire me. The greed and stealing has gotten it down.

No single European country on that list.

Akaujaa:
All European countries are actually poor without Africa. Imagine someone stealing from you to get rich, then turns around to tell you that you are poor.

What are they stealing from u?

Are they the government looting the country dry?

The South African countries are heads high and out of the woods in such negative attributes. May our country break her leg with this kind of wuru wuru leadership style

Stilloracle:
Stupid list. Remove Nigeria from that list.

Remember to take that fugitive with you when you decide to go and remove it.

Thank God Nigeria no dey inside the list. Tinubu is really working to put Nigeria back in the write path.

Na African countries full the list. God save us.

Thank you to Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas...they did this one from 2015 to 2025.


Please you mean souls should allow an Igbo man try his own best in 2027 and let's compare the results.....that is the only to know the people dragging Nigeria backward since the end of civil war in 1970

Our undoing is the large unproductive population of the country held down by strong religious sentiments and beside we know that more than half of the states in Nigeria will not appear in the list if placed at par with countries on this list.

Na statistics we go chop??🤣😂
See how low they've plunged the country into...
Evidence of bad and failed leadership

SmartPolician:
If we were serious in this country, the government would've enacted a law to stop the northerners from having children they cannot cater for.

You're a mugu 😏
Una plenty reach China?
Anything to justify the incompetence and incapability of the Apshit led government....
Tell your gangsters polithiefians to put the people in mind because that is what they are elected to do not paying online trolls and praise singers to lie even in the face of reality

South Sudan – Petroleum (major); gold; copper; zinc; lead; manganese; iron; silver; tin; diamonds; limestone & other industrial minerals.  
• Burundi – Tantalum/coltan (niobium); tin; tungsten; gold; limestone; peat; rare earths; plus resources of copper, cobalt, nickel, phosphate.  
• Central African Republic – Diamonds (key); gold; uranium; iron ore; copper; manganese; other occurrences reported.  
• Malawi – Uranium; phosphates (apatite); bauxite; coal; kyanite; limestone; rare earths/monazite; graphite; titanium minerals; vermiculite.  
• Madagascar – Ilmenite/heavy mineral sands; graphite; nickel-cobalt laterites; mica; rare earths; zircon; gold; chromite; limestone & gypsum.  
• Sudan – Gold (leading export); chromite; petroleum; zinc; lead; aluminum/bauxite occurrences; cobalt; nickel; uranium; cement & other industrial minerals.  
• Mozambique – Coal (coking & thermal); graphite; heavy mineral sands (titanium minerals/ilmenite); iron ore; bauxite; copper; gold; rubies & other gemstones; tantalum; uranium occurrences.  
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – Cobalt (world leading); high-grade copper; gold; diamonds; tantalum (coltan); tin; other base & precious metals.  
• Niger – Uranium (globally significant; high-grade); also gold, iron, coal, oil & gas; additional minerals including gypsum, salt, silver, tin reported.  
• Somalia – Reported deposits (mostly undeveloped) of tin, phosphate, gypsum, coal, iron ore, uranium; sepiolite/meerschaum; plus offshore/onshore oil & gas potential under active exploration.   
• Nigeria – Oil & natural gas (major); coal; lithium; gold; lead-zinc; bitumen (tar sands); iron ore; barite; gemstones; numerous additional solid minerals across >40 deposit types.   
• Liberia – Iron ore; gold; diamonds; barite; cement raw materials; heavy mineral sands & other base/industrial mineral occurrences.  
• Sierra Leone – Diamonds; rutile/titanium minerals; bauxite; gold; iron ore (incl. limonite/hematite); chromite; petroleum potential.  
• Mali – Gold (very large); iron ore; uranium; manganese; lithium; phosphates; bauxite; limestone; gemstones (smaller scale).  
• Gambia – Zircon & other heavy mineral sands (titanium minerals incl. rutile/ilmenite); laterite; clay; silica sand; small tin indications; largely unexploited.  
• Chad – Natron (sodium carbonate) historically important; oil (major since 2003); minor deposits of other minerals noted but limited exploitation.  
• Rwanda – Tin; tantalum (coltan); tungsten (the “3Ts”); gemstones; silica sands; kaolin; vermiculite; limestone; diatomite; other industrial minerals.  
• Togo – Phosphate (key export); limestone (cement); marble; diamonds & gold (smaller scale); additional identified resources incl. manganese, bauxite, gypsum, iron ore.  
• Ethiopia – Gold (principal mined metal); potash; tantalum; gemstones (opal, etc.); coal; iron ore; soda ash; kaolin & other industrial minerals.  
• Lesotho – Diamonds (kimberlite & alluvial; very high-value stones); base metals & uranium indications; clay; dimension stone; sand & gravel.  
• Burkina Faso – Gold (major; top African producer tier); zinc (industrial scale); silver (by-product); cement raw materials (limestone); other construction/industrial minerals.  
• Guinea-Bissau – Bauxite (prospective); phosphates; granite; clay; limestone; heavy minerals & petroleum potential (largely undeveloped).  
• Tanzania – Gold (significant); diamonds; tanzanite (unique); nickel; copper; cobalt; silver; iron ore; graphite; uranium; a range of industrial minerals (limestone, soda ash, gypsum, phosphates, etc.).  
• Zambia – Copper (core economy); cobalt; gold & silver (with copper); emeralds & other gemstones; iron ore; coal; uranium & other prospects.  
• Uganda – Gold; copper; cobalt; tin; tungsten; iron ore; phosphates; rare earth elements; plus significant onshore oil resources (Albertine Graben).   
• Benin – Limestone (cement); marble; gold (artisanal); clay; sand & gravel; limited overall production but identified occurrences.  
• Comoros – Limited known commercial minerals; small-scale use of construction materials (clay, sand, stone); volcanic geology implies potential (basalt, pumice, possible metals) but little exploration.  
• Senegal – Phosphate (major); gold (growing); zircon/heavy mineral sands; base metals potential (iron, copper, nickel, chromite) under exploration; industrial limestone.  
• Cameroon – Bauxite; iron ore; cobalt; gold; nickel; rutile; granite & other industrial minerals; large but largely undeveloped resource base.  
• Guinea – Bauxite (world class); iron ore; gold; diamonds; plus graphite, manganese, nickel, uranium potential.  
• Zimbabwe – Platinum group metals (very large); chrome; gold; coal; lithium; diamonds; numerous additional minerals across >30 deposit types.  
• Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) – Oil & gas (dominant extractive); iron ore; potash; copper & polymetallic ores; gold; diamonds; magnesium; phosphate; other industrial minerals.  
• Kenya – Ilmenite/rutile/zircon (Kwale heavy mineral sands); natural soda ash (Lake Magadi); gold; rare earth elements; titanium; other base & industrial minerals.  
• Mauritania – Iron ore (major); gold; copper; gypsum; phosphates & other occurrences; emerging offshore gas & some petroleum; broad critical mineral potential identified.  
• Ghana – Gold (top African producer); bauxite; manganese; diamonds; petroleum & natural gas offshore; limestone & iron ore occurrences.  
• Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) – Gold (expanding output); diamonds; manganese; iron ore; bauxite; nickel/copper potential; offshore petroleum & natural gas.  



Now ask yourself why is Africa poor

WaleBuraimoh:
What about India that has 3times our population? Why is theirs higher than ours? Na to dey defend rubbish na wetin Una Sabi

Most of you are economically dull and are ready to castigate Nigeria because of half-truth. Have you thought in your heart why a Beninoise or Cameroonian will prefer to come and live in Nigeria because the country is better than their own?

50 sheet hole countries

Lolzzzzz 🤣

If India and few others have the oil nigeria has, they will not be on the list

WaleBuraimoh:
Going by your logic; Cameroon , Liberia and Benin have populations that are not up to even one eighth of ours . That's why they have higher per Capita GDP. Why is India's GDP per capita higher than ours even when we have a very lesser population?. I don't like making comments here because most of you guys on here are economics illiterate. You just open ya mouth and say whatever that comes along with the saliva in your mouth. Rubbish logic!

Nigeria is simply not productive enough. We have all these resources and we are not taking advantage of them.
For a very long time we ignored everything and focused on oil, that is simply not wise. Another thing, we need to be aggressive in making sure electricity is available and stable. Energy is crucial to economic development.

A whole 50 yet no South Africa

That country pass us honestly