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STATES WITH THE LOWEST SEVERE POVERTY RATES — 2025

State — % of Population
1 🟣 Lagos — 0.2%
2 🟢 Imo — 0.3%
3 🟢 Anambra — 0.5%
4 🟢 Ebonyi — 1.1%
5 🟤 Rivers — 1.4%
6 🟣 Osun — 1.6%
7 🟤 Edo — 1.7%
8 🟠 FCT — 2.0%
9 🟢 Enugu — 2.4%
10 🟤 Delta — 3.1%
11 🟢 Abia — 3.4%
12 🟣 Ekiti — 3.5%

Southern states dominated the rankings, with several recording less than 1% of their population in severe poverty.

🟠 NC 🟢 SE 🟤 SS 🟣 SW

#Statisense
(OPHI: Global MPI Country Briefing)

Source

🇳🇬 STATE WITH THE HIGHEST SEVERE POVERTY RATE — 2025.

(% of population)

Top 12
1 🔴Kebbi — 52.7%
2 🔴Jigawa — 52.0%
3 🔴Sokoto — 51.4%
4 ⚫Bauchi — 50.8%
5 🔴Zamfara — 44.7%
6 ⚫Yobe — 43.6%
7 ⚫Gombe — 40.2%
8 🔴Katsina — 35.2%
9 ⚫Borno — 31.1%
10 🔴Kano — 26.7%
11 ⚫Taraba — 25.4%
12 🟠Niger — 22.8%

🟠NC ⚫NE 🔴NW

Northern Nigeria dominates the highest severe poverty rates, 4 states have over 50% of their population in severe poverty.

#Statisense
(Global MPI Country Briefing)

Source

Core Northerners shaaa


As for Lagos, its just there for obvious reasons, if not it would be competing with every other South West State..

Not surprise the Northern State are the one with the Highest.. But their so called leaders be hiding all the wealth for their own Children and then Telling their people to Hope for Paradise 😂😂😂

South East all over the place. Surprisingly, Ebonyi is punching beyond its weight.

Where is Ogun here, I thought they said IGR and VAT collections equal wealth? I seriously wonder the logic that makes people celebrate when govt take a larger chunk of their income as a proof of wealth.

All this northern governors need to do more ... Everything is not about power power ...

How is the lowest severe poverty defined.

We have seen this lie before.

As we speak, they are heavily preparing to go stone devil in the desert. After that, they will get lions share of over N1 trillion agric intervention fund. VAT is there for them also.

These guys feed the nation in a place where people spend 70% of their income on feeding average.

Even if income poverty is low, other deprivation indicators may not be:
For example:
In Ebonyi or Osun:
infrastructure gaps
unemployment
poor healthcare access
A purely income-based metric ignores:
education quality
sanitation
energy access
A multidimensional poverty index could tell a very different story.

Bayelsa a small state with large resources isn't even in the top places 💔. Even Akwa Ibom isn't there💔. Nigerian leaders should have a special place in hell💔😡

The power is nothing if your people keep dying of disease and starvation.

~Innocent Idibia
(2Baba)

Nawa o... Poverty is epidemic in the north. Check the list and you will see the parallel trends with dangerous population growth. Men just birthing children for "god" to raise.

PHIPEX:
South East all over the place. Surprisingly, Ebonyi is punching beyond its weight.

All 5 SE states are in the least poverty category.

Sometimes, these Statistics are just numbers with no real meaning in what they intend to portray.

I will leave it at that.

The northern leaders and politicians should be ashamed of themselves, very bad, this has been the situation for many years, but they are so desperate for power.

I know South Eastern States will top the chat... All the south Eastern States have very low poverty and this is due to low dependency on government, central etc.....

Segun91:
All this northern governors need to do more ... Everything is not about power power ...

it is a lie from hell. Add what they get from directly mining and selling resources to what thier imams and malams recieve and you have them dwarf the south in allocation.
Over N1 trilion agric intervention also heads to that region. Many foreign NGO are active there also.

So what poverty are we looking at in the north?
Poor people who feed the nation and can block food passage down south are not actually poor.

Please don't make racist and tribalistic comments on this section

Even before opening, I knew already that south east states will top it.

I'm not from south east, but if you're opportune to be In south east , I don't mean their urban areas, because that one speaks for itself, I mean interior villages, and see the massive sophisticated structural buildings in these villages, you'll know that South east is no body's mate in this country .

I did my national youth service in Imo state, Isu L.G.A, Uloano village precisely. what my eyes saw in that interior village and the surrounding villages, my mouth cannot say it. I saw castles .

Fake list from unverified source.
This is the authentic one for 2025.

Northern politicians and elite impoverishing their people since 1900.

States observing sit at home protests every Monday are having less poverty than those working even on Sundays. Igbo amaka

Nonsense statistics, with everything I've seen here in Lagos.

MadamVanessa:



I'm not from south east, but if you're opportune to be In south east , I don't mean their urban areas, I mean interior villages, and see the massive structural sophisticated buildings in these village, you'll know that South east is no body's mate in this country

Go to Kano and Kaduna and Benue and see their village champions also. It isnt about village development.

The affected regions have held this country to ransome for many years of its failed nationhood.

Every state is poor. Poverty capital of the world is what APC made Nigeria.

Where is my dear Edo State?

If I say Okpe and you say Bolo, na you know wetin you wan talk.

CodeTemplar:
Go to Kano and Kaduna and Benue and see their village champions also. It isnt about village development.

In terms of wealth that spread evenly, let's keep sentiment aside, Igbos are ahead of all the tribes in Nigeria.

The reason the SE states are up there is coz of their non dependence on government for anything. Growing up in my village in imo, we were trained to never expect anything from anyone, not even the government. U go-to Hussle your way to anything. my people did everything by their selves, be it transformer, water, health centre even up to the up to the imo airport.

MadamVanessa:
In terms of wealth that spread evenly, let's keep sentiment aside, Igbos are ahead of all the tribes in Nigeria.

so you finally wwoke up from the slumber. In terms of mega wealthy people, dangote will neutralize the most wealthy 1,000 igbo businessmen.
His people are getting VAT, religious subsidy, agric subsidy and more every year. Can Igbo boast of those?

Where does KWARA belong to?