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The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market [27] [28] with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology, and entertainment sectors. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] It is ranked as the 53rd-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP , the fourth largest in Africa and the 27th-largest in terms ...
Nigerian States by Estimated GDP, 2021 Nigerian States by GDP, 2010. The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their estimated total GDP in 2021 according to a 2022 report by BudgIT. [1]
Nigeria's economy is the fourth largest in Africa, the 31st-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and 30th-largest by PPP. GDP (PPP) per capita is US$9,148 [155] (as of 2022), which is less than South Africa, Egypt and Morocco, but slightly higher than Ghana and Ivory Coast.
PPP largely removes the exchange rate problem, but has its own drawbacks; it does not reflect the value of economic output in international trade, and it also requires more estimation than nominal GDP. [4] On the whole, PPP per capita figures are more narrowly spread than nominal GDP per capita figures. [5]
During the mid and late 1980's, Nigeria experienced a prolonged and severe economic downturn. Nigeria suffered a rapid plummet of its foreign reserves from $10 billion in early 1980s to approximately $1 billion in the mid 1980s due to overvalued currency, inflated imports, and international decline of oil prices. [4]
Colonialism is a major feature of the economic history of Nigeria. [4] Britain eventually gained control of the Nigerian administrators covering the period . [5] After independence, the Nigerian economy seemed very promising. Many saw Nigeria, with 15% of Africa's population, as an emerging economy. [6]
Agriculture is a major sector of the Nigerian economy, [1] accounting for up to 35% of total employment in 2020. [2] According to the FAO, [3] agriculture remains the foundation of the Nigerian economy, [1] providing livelihood for most Nigerians and generating millions of jobs.
The base year for calculation (including information on the market structure) was updated from 1990 to 2010. [3] [2] This was a fairly huge increment in base year; for comparison, the 2010 Ghana GDP rebasing updated the base year from 1993 to 2006, [6] [7] and the 2015 India GDP rebasing updated the base year from 2004/05 to 2011/12.