Nigeria Poverty Assessment 2022
SOME 4 IN 10 NIGERIANS LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE, WITH
POVERTY CONCENTRATED IN RURAL AREAS, IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
The 2018/19 Nigerian Living Standards Survey (NLSS) yielded the first official estimates of poverty in Nigeria in a decade
Poverty is high in Nigeria – at 40.1 percent in 2018/19 – but it is also clustered in the north; Nigeria is spatially unequal
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Poverty headcount rate in Nigeria in 2018/19, by urban-rural
State-level poverty headcount rate in 2018/19
Poverty headcount rate
(percent)
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Total
Urban
H
Rural
(64,100]
(56,64]
(48,56]
(40,48]
(32,40]
(24,32]
(16,24]
(8,16]
[0,8]
Note: Estimates exclude Borno. Poverty rate calculated using Nigeria's national poverty line.
Source: 2018/19 NLSS, Humanitarian Data Exchange (for shapefiles), and World Bank estimates.
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