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.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) counts a person as multidimensionally poor when they are deprived in at least 26 percent of a weighted set of indicators across four areas: health, education, living standards, and work and shocks. On that measure, 62.9 percent of Nigerians, about 133 million people, are poor.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022, Table D6. The Borno figure is not representative at state level. State boundaries: OCHA Common Operational Datasets (administrative level 1), simplified.
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| State | Poor (%) |
|---|---|
| Abia | 29.8% |
| Adamawa | 68.7% |
| Akwa Ibom | 71.3% |
| Anambra | 32.1% |
| Bauchi | 73.9% |
| Bayelsa | 88.5% |
| Benue | 75.0% |
| Borno | 72.5% |
| Cross River | 75.4% |
| Delta | 47.6% |
| Ebonyi | 78.0% |
| Edo | 35.4% |
| Ekiti | 36.0% |
| Enugu | 63.1% |
| Gombe | 86.2% |
| Imo | 40.7% |
| Jigawa | 84.3% |
| Kaduna | 73.9% |
| Kano | 66.3% |
| Katsina | 72.7% |
| Kebbi | 82.2% |
| Kogi | 61.3% |
| Kwara | 48.3% |
| Lagos | 29.4% |
| Nasarawa | 60.7% |
| Niger | 69.1% |
| Ogun | 68.1% |
| Ondo | 27.2% |
| Osun | 40.7% |
| Oyo | 48.7% |
| Plateau | 84.0% |
| Rivers | 62.4% |
| Sokoto | 90.5% |
| Taraba | 79.4% |
| Yobe | 83.5% |
| Zamfara | 78.0% |
| FCT | 48.3% |
The rates are highest in Sokoto (90.5 percent), Bayelsa (88.5 percent) and Gombe (86.2 percent), and lowest in Ondo (27.2 percent), Lagos (29.4 percent) and Abia (29.8 percent). Kano, the most populous state, has the largest number of poor people: 10.5 million.
This index counts what people lack, not what they earn, so it is a different measure from the income-based national poverty line. The survey results are representative at state level for every state except Borno.