Nigeria GDP Annual Growth Rate
How much bigger or smaller the economy is than a year earlier, adjusted for inflation: each period's real GDP against the same period a year before.
4.0%
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1961 to 2025
Source: Calculated from real GDP, each period against the same period a year earlier. Real GDP: World Bank NY.GDP.MKTP.KN · GDP at constant prices, naira million, annual.
Nigeria GDP Annual Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Nigeria, the GDP annual growth rate fell by 0.1pp in 2025, from 4.1% in 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −6.4% in 2020 to 4.3% in 2022.
Its average since 1961 is 3.6%, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- real GDP, each period against the same period a year earlier. Real GDP: World Bank NY.GDP.MKTP.KN
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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