Data
Charts and maps built from official figures on public money, security and living conditions in Nigeria. Each one states its source, and the figures behind it can be viewed and downloaded.
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How ₦2.43 trillion of federation revenue was shared in a single month
Where the revenue distributed by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for September 2026 came from, and which tier of government received it.
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Food inflation fell below headline inflation in 2025, then climbed back above it
Headline and food inflation in Nigeria each month from January 2023 to September 2026, from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
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INEC's election budget more than doubled between 2015 and 2023
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) budgeted ₦116.3 billion for the 2015 general elections and ₦305 billion for 2023.
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Lagos owes more than a quarter of the states' domestic debt and a fifth of their foreign debt
The domestic and external debt of each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) at 31 December 2025, from the Debt Management Office (DMO).
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Lagos raised a third of all the revenue the states collected themselves in 2025
Internally generated revenue (IGR) of each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in 2025, from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
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Multidimensional poverty ranges from 27% in Ondo to 91% in Sokoto
The share of people in each state who are multidimensionally poor, from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) survey of 2021 and 2022.
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Nigeria's oil output has recovered since 2023 but remains below its 2015 level
Nigeria's average crude oil production each year, excluding condensate, as reported to and estimated by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
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Nigeria's public debt has risen more than twelvefold in naira since 2015
Total public debt of the federal government, the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) at the end of each year, from the Debt Management Office (DMO).
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Personnel costs take three-quarters of the Ministry of Defence's proposed 2026 budget
Of the ₦3.154 trillion proposed for the Ministry of Defence in 2026, ₦2.39 trillion is for personnel costs and allowances.
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Petrol subsidy cost ₦4.7 trillion in 2022, its last full year
What the federation spent each year on petrol subsidy, recorded as under-recovery, from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).
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Six in ten people who dealt with a prosecutor in 2023 paid a bribe
How often Nigerians who dealt with each type of public official paid a bribe, from the 2023 national survey on corruption by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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States and councils received ₦2.68 trillion from FAAC in four months
Monthly revenue shared by the Federation Account Allocation Committee to Nigeria's 36 states and 774 local government councils, January to April 2024.
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The 2026 federal budget is eleven times the 2016 budget, in naira
Total spending in each year's Appropriation Act as signed by the President, 2016 to 2026.
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The naira was worth an eighth of its 2015 value against the dollar by 2025
The official exchange rate of the naira to the US dollar, average for each year, 2015 to 2025, from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
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Turnout has fallen at every presidential election since 2003
Votes cast as a share of registered voters in Nigeria's presidential elections, 1999 to 2023.
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Women have never held more than nine of the 109 Senate seats
The number of women in the Senate and the House of Representatives in each National Assembly since 1999.