Statistical information Nigeria 1993Nigeria

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Nigeria - Introduction 1993
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Background: Nigeria has been ruled by the military since 1983.


Nigeria - Geography 1993
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Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Benin and Cameroon

Geographic coordinates

Map referenceAfrica, Standard Time Zones of the World

Area
Total: 923,770 km²
Land: 910,770 km²

Land boundaries: total 4,047 km, Benin 773 km, Cameroon 1,690 km, Chad 87 km, Niger 1,497 km

Coastline: 853 km
Continental shelf: 200 m depth or to depth of exploitation
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Territorial sea: 30 nm

Maritime claims

Climate: varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north

Terrain: southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north

Elevation

Natural resources: petroleum, tin, columbite, iron ore, coal, limestone, lead, zinc, natural gas
Land use

Land use
Arable land: 31%
Permanent crops: 3%
Meadows and pastures: 23%
Other: 28%

Irrigated land: 8,650 km² (1989 est.)

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Nigeria - People 1993
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Population: 95,060,430 (July 1993 est.)
Growth rate: 3.13% (1993 est.)

Nationality
Noun: Nigerian(s)
Adjective: Nigerian north: Hausa and Fulani southwest: Yoruba southeast: Ibos

Ethnic groups

Languages: English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, Fulani

Religions: Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10%

Demographic profile
Age structure

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate: 3.13% (1993 est.)

Birth rate: 43.8 births/1000 population (1993 est.)

Death rate: 12.85 deaths/1000 population (1993 est.)

Net migration rate: 0.37 migrant(s)/1000 population (1993 est.)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues: recent droughts in north severely affecting marginal agricultural activities; desertification; soil degradation, rapid deforestation

Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 77.3 deaths/1000 live births (1993 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
Total population: 54.7 years
Male: 53.54 years
Female: 55.88 years (1993 est.)

Total fertility rate: 6.43 children born/woman (1993 est.)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
Total population: 51%
Male: 62%
Female: 40%
By occupation:
agriculture 54%, industry, commerce, and services 19%, government 15%
49% of population of working age (1985)


School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Nigeria - Government 1993
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Country name
Conventional long form: Federal Republic of Nigeria
Conventional short form: Nigeria

Government type: military government since 31 December 1983; plans to turn over power to elected civilians in August 1993

Capital: Abuja

Administrative divisions:
30 states and 1 territory*; Abia, Abuja Capital
Territory*, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River,
Delta, Edo, Enugu, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara,
Lagos, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe


Dependent areas

Independence: 1 October 1960 (from UK)

National holiday: Independence Day, 1 October (1960)

Constitution: 1 October 1979, amended 9 February 1984, revised 1989

Legal system: based on English common law, Islamic law, and tribal law

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: 21 years of age; universal

Executive branch: president, vice-president, cabinet

Legislative branch

Judicial branch: Supreme Court, Federal Court of Appeal

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation:
ACP, AfDB, C, CCC, ECA, ECOWAS, FAO, G-15, G-19, G-24, G-77,
GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMO, IMF, INMARSAT,
INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, LORCS, MINURSO, NAM, OAU, OIC, OPEC, PCA,
UN, UNAVEM, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNPROFOR, UPU, WCL, WHO,
WIPO, WMO, WTO


Diplomatic representation
In the us chief of mission: Ambassador Zubair Mahmud KAZAURE
In the us chancery: 2,201 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20,037
In the us telephone: (202) 822-1500
In the us consulate general: New York
From the us chief of mission: Ambassador William L. SWING
From the us embassy: 2 Eleke Crescent, Lagos
From the us mailing address: P. O. Box 554, Lagos
From the us telephone: 234 (1) 610,097
From the us fax: 234 (1) 610,257 branch office: Abuja
From the us consulate general: Kaduna

Flag descriptionflag of Nigeria: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and green

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


Nigeria - Economy 1993
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Economy overview: Although Nigeria is Africa's leading oil-producing country, it remains poor with a $300 per capita GDP. In 1991-92 massive government spending, much of it to help ensure a smooth transition to civilian rule, ballooned the budget deficit and caused inflation and interest rates to rise. The lack of fiscal discipline forced the IMF to declare Nigeria not in compliance with an 18-month standby facility started in January 1991. Lagos has set ambitious targets for expanding oil production capacity and is offering foreign companies more attractive investment incentives. Government efforts to reduce Nigeria's dependence on oil exports and to sustain noninflationary growth, however, have fallen short because of inadequate new investment funds and endemic corruption. Living standards remain below the level of the early 1980s oil boom.

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate

Real gdp per capita: $300 (1992 est.)

Gross national saving
Gdp composition by sector of origin

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products: accounts for 32% of GDP and half of labor force; inefficient small-scale farming dominates; once a large net exporter of food and now an importer; cash crops - cocoa, peanuts, palm oil, rubber; food crops - corn, rice, sorghum, millet, cassava, yams; livestock - cattle, sheep, goats, pigs; fishing and forestry resources extensively exploited

Industries: crude oil and mining - coal, tin, columbite; primary processing industries - palm oil, peanut, cotton, rubber, wood, hides and skins; manufacturing industries - textiles, cement, building materials, food products, footwear, chemical, printing, ceramics, steel

Industrial production growth rate: growth rate 5.5% (1991; accounts for 8.5% of GDP

Labor force
Labor force

Unemployment rate: 28% (1992 est.)

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget: revenues $9 billion; expenditures $10.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1992 est.)

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: calendar year

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports: $12.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991)
Commodoties: oil 95%, cocoa, rubber
Partners: EC countries 43%, US 41%

Imports: $7.8 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
Commodoties: consumer goods, capital equipment, chemicals, raw materials
Partners: EC countries 70%, US 16%

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: naira (N) per US$1 - 19.661 (December 1992), 17.298 (1992), 9.909 (1991), 8.038 (1990), 7.3647 (1989), 4.5370 (1988), 4.0160 (1987)


Nigeria - Energy 1993
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Electricity
Production: 4,740,000 kW capacity; 8,300 million kWh produced, 70 kWh per capita (1991)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Nigeria - Communication 1993
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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Nigeria - Military 1993
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Military expenditures
Percent of gdp:
exchange rate conversion - $172 million, about 1% of
GDP (1992)


Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Nigeria - Transportation 1993
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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports: 76
Usable: 63
With permanentsurface runways: 34
With runways over 3659 m: 1
With runways 2440-3659 m: 15
With runways 1220-2439 m: 23

Heliports

Pipelines: crude oil 2,042 km; natural gas 500 km; petroleum products 3,000 km

Railways

Roadways

Waterways: 8,575 km consisting of Niger and Benue Rivers and smaller rivers and creeks

Merchant marine:
28 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 418,046 GRT/664,949
DWT; includes 17 cargo, 1 refrigerated cargo, 1 roll-on/roll-off, 7 oil tanker, 1 chemical tanker, 1 bulk


Ports and terminals


Nigeria - Transnational issues 1993
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Disputes international:
demarcation of international boundaries in Lake
Chad, the lack of which has led to border incidents in the past, is completed and awaiting ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria; boundary commission, created with Cameroon to discuss unresolved land and maritime boundaries, has not yet convened


Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs:
passenger and cargo air hub for West Africa facilitates
Nigeria's position as a major transit country for heroin en route from
Southeast and Southwest Asia via Africa to Western Europe and North America; increasingly a transit route for cocaine from South America intended for West
European and North American markets (some of that cocaine is also consumed in
Nigeria)



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