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Background: In ancient and pre-colonial times, the area of present-day Nigeria was occupied by a great diversity of ethnic groups with different languages and traditions. These included Islamic empires in northern Nigeria and smaller organized political groupings in southern Nigeria. British influence and control over what would become Nigeria and Africa's most populous country grew through the 19th century. In 1914, the British amalgamated their separately administered northern and southern territories into modern-day Nigeria. A series of constitutions after World War II granted Nigeria greater autonomy. After independence in 1960, politics were marked by coups and mostly military rule, until the death of a military head of state in 1998 allowed for a political transition. In 1999, a new constitution was adopted and a peaceful transition to civilian government was completed. The government continues to face the daunting task of institutionalizing democracy and reforming a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through decades of corruption and mismanagement. In addition, Nigeria continues to experience longstanding ethnic and religious tensions. Although both the 2003 and 2007 presidential elections were marred by significant irregularities and violence, Nigeria is currently experiencing its longest period of civilian rule since independence. The general elections of 2007 marked the first civilian-to-civilian transfer of power in the country's history. National and state elections in 2011 and 2015 were generally regarded as credible. The 2015 election was also heralded for the fact that the then-umbrella opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, defeated the long-ruling People's Democratic Party that had governed since 1999, and assumed the presidency, marking the first peaceful transfer of power from one party to another. Presidential and legislative elections were held in early 2019 and deemed broadly free and fair despite voting irregularities, intimidation, and violence.


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Location: Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon

Geographic coordinates: 10 00 N, 8 00 E

Map reference: Africa

Area
Total: 923,768 km²
Land: 910,768 km²
Water: 13,000 km²
Comparative: about six times the size of Georgia; slightly more than twice the size of California

Land boundaries
Total: 4,477 km
Border countries: (4) Benin 809 km; Cameroon 1,975 km; Chad 85 km; Niger 1,608 km

Coastline: 853 km

Maritime claims
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

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
Highest point: Chappal Waddi 2,419 m
Lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
Mean elevation: 380 m

Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, arable land

Land use
Agricultural land: 78% (2018 est.)
Forest: 9.5% (2018 est.)
Other: 12.5% (2018 est.)

Irrigated land: 2,930 km² (2012)

Major rivers
By length in km: Niger river mouth (shared with Guinea [s], Mali, Benin, and Niger) - 4,200 km


Major watersheds area km²: Atlantic Ocean drainage: Niger (2,261,741 km²)
Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: Lake Chad (2,497,738 km²)

Total water withdrawal
Municipal: 5 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)
Industrial: 1.965 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)
Agricultural: 5.51 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)

Total renewable water resources: 286.2 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)

Natural hazards: periodic droughts; flooding

Geography
Note: the Niger River enters the country in the northwest and flows southward through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of Guinea


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Population
Distribution: largest population of any African nation; significant population clusters are scattered throughout the country, with the highest density areas being in the south and southwest : 225,082,083 (2022 est.)
Growth rate: 2.53% (2022 est.)
Below poverty line: 40.1% (2018 est.)

Nationality
Noun: Nigerian(s)
Adjective: Nigerian

Ethnic groups: Hausa 30%, Yoruba 15.5%, Igbo (Ibo) 15.2%, Fulani 6%, Tiv 2.4%, Kanuri/Beriberi 2.4%, Ibibio 1.8%, Ijaw/Izon 1.8%, other 24.9% (2018 est.)
Note: Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups

Languages: English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani, over 500 additional indigenous languages

Religions: Muslim 53.5%, Roman Catholic 10.6%, other Christian 35.3%, other .6% (2018 est.)

Demographic profile: Nigeria’s population is projected to grow from more than 186 million people in 2016 to 392 million in 2,050, becoming the world’s fourth most populous country. Nigeria’s sustained high population growth rate will continue for the foreseeable future because of population momentum and its high birth rate. Abuja has not successfully implemented family planning programs to reduce and space births because of a lack of political will, government financing, and the availability and affordability of services and products, as well as a cultural preference for large families. Increased educational attainment, especially among women, and improvements in health care are needed to encourage and to better enable parents to opt for smaller families.

Age structure
0-14 years: 41.7% (male 45,571,738/female 43,674,769)
15-24 years: 20.27% (male 22,022,660/female 21,358,753)
25-54 years: 30.6% (male 32,808,913/female 32,686,474)
55-64 years: 4.13% (male 4,327,847/female 4,514,264)
65 years and over: 3.3% (male 3,329,083/female 3,733,801) (2020 est.)

Dependency ratios
Total dependency ratio: 86
Youth dependency ratio: 80.6
Elderly dependency ratio: 5.5
Potential support ratio: 18 (2021 est.)

Median age
Total: 18.6 years
Male: 18.4 years
Female: 18.9 years (2020 est.)

Population growth rate: 2.53% (2022 est.)

Birth rate: 34.19 births/1000 population (2022 est.)

Death rate: 8.7 deaths/1000 population (2022 est.)

Net migration rate: -0.21 migrant(s)/1000 population (2022 est.)

Population distribution: largest population of any African nation; significant population clusters are scattered throughout the country, with the highest density areas being in the south and southwest

Urbanization
Urban population: 54.3% of total population (2023)
Rate of urbanization: 3.92% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)

Major urban areas
Population: 15.946 million Lagos, 4.348 million Kano, 3.875 million Ibadan, 3.840 million ABUJA (capital), 3.480 million Port Harcourt, 1.905 million Benin City (2023)

Environment
Current issues: serious overpopulation and rapid urbanization have led to numerous environmental problems; urban air and water pollution; rapid deforestation; soil degradation; loss of arable land; oil pollution - water, air, and soil have suffered serious damage from oil spills
International agreements party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Marine Dumping-London Protocol, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
International agreements signed but not ratified: Tropical Timber 2006

Air pollutants
Particulate matter emissions: 48.73 micrograms per cubic meter (2016 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions: 120.37 megatons (2016 est.)
Methane emissions: 143.99 megatons (2020 est.)

Sex ratio
At birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.96 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.77 male(s)/female
Total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2022 est.)

Mothers mean age at first birth: 20.4 years (2018 est.)
Note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49

Maternal mortality ratio: 917 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)

Infant mortality rate
Total: 56.68 deaths/1000 live births
Male: 62.03 deaths/1000 live births
Female: 51.01 deaths/1000 live births (2022 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
Total population: 61.33 years
Male: 59.51 years
Female: 63.27 years (2022 est.)

Total fertility rate: 4.62 children born/woman (2022 est.)

Contraceptive prevalence rate: 16.6% (2018)

Drinking water source
Improved:
Unimproved:

Current health expenditure: 3% of GDP (2019)

Physicians density: 0.38 physicians/1000 population (2018)

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access
Improved:
Unimproved:

Hiv/Aids
Adult prevalence rate: 1.3% (2021 est.)

Major infectious diseases
Degree of risk: very high (2020)
Food or water borne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
Vector borne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever
Watercontactdiseases: leptospirosis and schistosomiasis
Animalcontactdiseases: rabies
Respiratorydiseases: meningococcal meningitis
Aerosolizeddustorsoilcontactdiseases: Lassa fever
Note3: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Nigeria is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

Obesity adult prevalence rate: 8.9% (2016)

Alcohol consumption
Per capita total: 4.49 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita beer: 0.73 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita wine: 0.09 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita spirits: 0.4 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita other alcohols: 3.27 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)

Tobacco use
Total: 3.7% (2020 est.)
Male: 6.9% (2020 est.)
Female: 0.5% (2020 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 18.4% (2019/20)

Education expenditures: 0.5% of GDP (2013)

Literacy
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 62%
Male: 71.3%
Female: 52.7% (2018)

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment
Rate ages 15-24 total: 29.9%
Rate ages 15-24 male: 26.8% NA
Rate ages 15-24 female: 33.5% (2019 est.) NA


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Country name
Conventional long form: Federal Republic of Nigeria
Conventional short form: Nigeria
Etymology: named for the Niger River that flows through the west of the country to the Atlantic Ocean; from a native term "Ni Gir" meaning "River Gir"

Government type: federal presidential republic

Capital
Name: Abuja
Geographic coordinates: 9 05 N, 7 32 E
Time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Etymology: Abuja is a planned capital city, it replaced Lagos in 1991; situated in the center of the country, Abuja takes its name from a nearby town, now renamed Suleja

Administrative divisions: 36 states and 1 territory*; Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Federal Capital Territory*, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara

Dependent areas

Independence: 1 October 1960 (from the UK)

National holiday: Independence Day (National Day), 1 October (1960)

Constitution
History: several previous; latest adopted 5 May 1999, effective 29 May 1999
Amendments: proposed by the National Assembly; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote of both houses and approval by the Houses of Assembly of at least two thirds of the states; amendments to constitutional articles on the creation of a new state, fundamental constitutional rights, or constitution-amending procedures requires at least four-fifths majority vote by both houses of the National Assembly and approval by the Houses of Assembly in at least two thirds of the states; passage of amendments limited to the creation of a new state require at least two-thirds majority vote by the proposing National Assembly house and approval by the Houses of Assembly in two thirds of the states; amended several times, last in 2018

Legal system: mixed legal system of English common law, Islamic law (in 12 northern states), and traditional law

International law organization participation: accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction

Citizenship
Citizenship by birth: no
Citizenship by descentonly: at least one parent must be a citizen of Nigeria
Dual citizenship recognized: yes
Residency requirement for naturalization: 15 years

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

Executive branch
Chief of state: President Maj. Gen. (ret.) Muhammadu BUHARI (since 29 May 2015); Vice President Oluyemi "Yemi" OSINBAJO (since 29 May 2015); note - the president is both chief of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces
Head of government: President Maj. Gen. (ret.) Muhammadu BUHARI (since 29 May 2015); Vice President Oluyemi "Yemi" OSINBAJO (since 29 May 2015)
Cabinet: Federal Executive Council appointed by the president but constrained constitutionally to include at least one member from each of the 36 states
Elections and appointments: president directly elected by qualified majority popular vote and at least 25% of the votes cast in 24 of Nigeria's 36 states; president elected for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 23 February 2019 (next to be held on 25 February 2023)
Election results: Muhammadu BUHARI elected president; percent of vote - Muhammadu BUHARI (APC) 53%, Atiku ABUBAKAR (PDP) 39%, other 8% (2019)

Legislative branch
Description: bicameral National Assembly consists of:
Senate (109 seats - 3 each for the 36 states and 1 for Abuja-Federal Capital Territory; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 4-year terms)
House of Representatives (360 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 4-year terms)
Elections: Senate - last held on 23 February 2019 (next to be held on 25 February 2023)
House of Representatives - last held on 23 February 2019 (next to be held on 25 February 2023)
Election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - APC 65, PDP 39, YPP 1, TBD 3; composition - men 101, women 8, percent of women 7.3%
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - APC 217, PDP 115, other 20, TBD 8; composition - men 347, women 13, percent of women 3.6%; note - total National Assembly percent of women 4.5%

Judicial branch
Highest courts: Supreme Court (consists of the chief justice and 15 justices)
Judge selection and term of office: judges appointed by the president upon the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, a 23-member independent body of federal and state judicial officials; judge appointments confirmed by the Senate; judges serve until age 70
Subordinate courts: Court of Appeal; Federal High Court; High Court of the Federal Capital Territory; Sharia Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory; Customary Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory; state court system similar in structure to federal system

Political parties and leaders: Accord Party or ACC [Mohammad Lawal MALADO]
Africa Democratic Congress or ADC [Ralph Okey NWOSU] 
All Progressives Congress or APC [Abdullahi ADAMU]
All Progressives Grand Alliance or APGA [Victor Ike OYE]
Labor Party or LP [Julius ABURE]
Peoples Democratic Party or PDP [Iyourchia AYU]
Young Progressive Party or YPP [Bishop AMAKIRI]

International organization participation: ACP, AfDB, ATMIS, AU, C, CD, D-8, ECOWAS, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LCBC, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSMA, MNJTF, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Diplomatic representation
In the us chief of mission: Ambassador Uzoma Elizabeth EMENIKE (since 7 July 2021)
In the us chancery: 3,519 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20,008
In the us telephone: [1] (202) 800-7,201 (ext. 100)
In the us FAX: [1] (202) 362-6,541
In the us email address and website:
From the us chief of mission: Ambassador Mary Beth LEONARD (since 24 December 2019)
From the us embassy: Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive, Central District Area, Abuja
From the us mailing address: 8,320 Abuja Place, Washington DC 20,521-8,320
From the us telephone: [234] (9) 461-4,000
From the us FAX: [234] (9) 461-4,036
From the us email address and website:

Flag description: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and green; the color green represents the forests and abundant natural wealth of the country, white stands for peace and unity

National symbols: eagle; national colors: green, white

National anthem
Name: "Arise Oh Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey"
Lyrics and music: John A. ILECHUKWU, Eme Etim AKPAN, B.A. OGUNNAIKE, Sotu OMOIGUI and P.O. ADERIBIGBE/Benedict Elide ODIASE
Note: adopted 1978; lyrics are a mixture of the five top entries in a national contest

National heritage
Total world heritage sites: 2 (both cultural)
Selected world heritage site locales:


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Economy overview

Real gdp purchasing power parity:
Note: data are in 2017 dollars

Real gdp growth rate:

Real gdp per capita:
Note: data are in 2017 dollars

Gross national saving

Gdp composition by end use
Household consumption: 80% (2017 est.)
Government consumption: 5.8% (2017 est.)
Investment in fixed capital: 14.8% (2017 est.)
Investment in inventories: 0.7% (2017 est.)
Exports of goods and services: 11.9% (2017 est.)
Imports of goods and services: -13.2% (2017 est.)

Gdp composition by sector of origin
Agriculture: 21.1% (2016 est.)
Industry: 22.5% (2016 est.)
Services: 56.4% (2017 est.)

Agriculture products: cassava, yams, maize, oil palm fruit, rice, vegetables, sorghum, groundnuts, fruit, sweet potatoes

Industries: crude oil, coal, tin, columbite; rubber products, wood; hides and skins, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel

Industrial production growth rate: 2.2% (2017 est.)

Labor force: 60.08 million (2017 est.)
By occupation agriculture: 70%
By occupation industry: 10%
By occupation services: 20% (1999 est.)

Unemployment rate:

Youth unemployment
Rate ages 15-24 total: 29.9%
Rate ages 15-24 male: 26.8% NA
Rate ages 15-24 female: 33.5% (2019 est.) NA

Population below poverty line: 40.1% (2018 est.)

Gini index
Coefficient distribution of family income:

Household income or consumption by percentage share
Lowest 10: 1.8%
Highest 10: 38.2% (2010 est.)

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget
Revenues: $12.92 billion (2017 est.)
Expenditures: $19.54 billion (2017 est.)
Surplus or deficit: $-1.8% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

Taxes and other revenues: 3.4% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

Public debt:

Revenue
From forest resources forest revenues: 1.02% of GDP (2018 est.)
From coal coal revenues: 0% of GDP (2018 est.)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

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Current account balance:

Exports:
Partners: India 16%, Spain 10%, United States 7%, France 7%, Netherlands 6% (2019)
Commodities: crude petroleum, natural gas, scrap vessels, flexible metal tubing, cocoa beans (2019)

Imports:
Partners: China 30%, Netherlands 11%, United States 6%, Belgium 5% (2019)
Commodities: refined petroleum, cars, wheat, laboratory glassware, packaged medicines (2019)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

Debt external:

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Exchange rates:


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Electricity
Access electrification total population: 62% (2019)
Access electrification urban areas: 91% (2019)
Access electrification rural areas: 30% (2019)
Installed generating capacity: 11.691 million kW (2020 est.)
Consumption: 24,611,480,000 kWh (2019 est.)
Exports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)
Imports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)
Transmission distribution losses: 4.713 billion kWh (2019 est.)
Generation sources fossil fuels: 78.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources solar: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources hydroelectricity: 21.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources biomass and waste: 0.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal
Production: 44,000 metric tons (2020 est.)
Consumption: 85,000 metric tons (2020 est.)
Exports: 12,000 metric tons (2020 est.)
Imports: 77,000 metric tons (2020 est.)
Proven reserves: 344 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum
Total petroleum production: 1,646,900 bbl/day (2021 est.)
Refined petroleum consumption: 483,100 bbl/day (2019 est.)
Crude oil and lease condensate exports: 1,889,100 bbl/day (2018 est.)
Crude oil and lease condensate imports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)
Crude oil estimated reserves: 36.89 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Crude oil

Refined petroleum
Products production: 35,010 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Products exports: 2,332 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Products imports: 223,400 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas
Production: 46,296,835,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)
Consumption: 18,787,602,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)
Exports: 27,509,177,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)
Imports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)
Proven reserves: 5,760,883,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions: 104.494 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)
From coal and metallurgical coke: 231,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)
From petroleum and other liquids: 67.406 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)
From consumed natural gas: 36.856 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita: 8.466 million Btu/person (2019 est.)


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Telephones
Fixed lines total subscriptions: 107,031 (2020 est.)
Mobile cellular total subscriptions: 204,228,678 (2020 est.)
Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 99 (2020 est.)

Telephone system

Broadcast media: nearly 70 federal government-controlled national and regional TV stations; all 36 states operate TV stations; several private TV stations operational; cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; network of federal government-controlled national, regional, and state radio stations; roughly 40 state government-owned radio stations typically carry their own programs except for news broadcasts; about 20 private radio stations; transmissions of international broadcasters are available; digital broadcasting migration process completed in three states in 2018 (2019)

Internet
Country code: .ng
Users total: 74,210,251 (2020 est.)
Users percent of population: 36% (2020 est.)

Broadband fixed subscriptions
Total: 65,313 (2020 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 0.03 (2020 est.)


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Military expenditures:

Military and security forces: Nigerian Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force; Ministry of Interior: Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) (2022)
Note1: the NSCDC a paramilitary agency commissioned to assist the military in the management of threats to internal security, including attacks and natural disasters
Note2: some states have created local security forces in response to increased violence, insecurity, and criminality that have exceeded the response capacity of government security forces

Military service age and obligation: 18-26 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; no conscription (2022)

Space program

Terrorist groups: Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham - West Africa; Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan (Ansaru)
Note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix T.


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National air transport system
Number of registered air carriers: 13 (2020)
Inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 104
Annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 8,169,192 (2018)
Annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 19.42 million (2018) mt-km

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix: 5N

Airports
Total: 54 (2021)
With paved runways total: 40
With paved runways over 3047 m: 10
With paved runways 2438 to 3047 m: 12
With paved runways 15-24 to 2437 m: 9
With paved runways 914 to 1523 m: 6
With paved runways under 914 m: 3 (2021)
With unpaved runways total: 14
With unpaved runways 15-24 to 2437 m: 2
With unpaved runways 914 to 1523 m: 9
With unpaved runways under 914 m: 3 (2021)

Heliports: 5 (2021)

Pipelines: 124 km condensate, 4,045 km gas, 164 km liquid petroleum gas, 4,441 km oil, 3,940 km refined products (2013)

Railways
Total: 3,798 km (2014)
Standard gauge: 293 km (2014) 1.435-m gauge
Narrowgauge: 3,505 km (2014) 1.067-m gauge
Note: as of the end of 2018, there were only six operational locomotives in Nigeria primarily used for passenger service; the majority of the rail lines are in a severe state of disrepair and need to be replaced

Roadways
Total: 195,000 km (2017)
Paved: 60,000 km (2017)
Unpaved: 135,000 km (2017)

Waterways: 8,600 km (2011) (Niger and Benue Rivers and smaller rivers and creeks)

Merchant marine
Total: 791
By type: general cargo 14, oil tanker 110, other 667 (2021)

Ports and terminals
Major seaport: Bonny Inshore Terminal, Calabar, Lagos
Oil terminals: Bonny Terminal, Brass Terminal, Escravos Terminal, Forcados Terminal, Pennington Terminal, Qua Iboe Terminal
Lng terminals export: Bonny Island


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Disputes international: Nigeria-Benin: none identified

Refugees and internally displaced persons
Refugees country of origin: 87,054 (Cameroon) (2022)
IDPs: 3,030,544 (northeast Nigeria; Boko Haram attacks and counterinsurgency efforts in northern Nigeria; communal violence between Christians and Muslims in the middle belt region, political violence; flooding; forced evictions; cattle rustling; competition for resources) (2022)

Illicit drugs: a significant source for cannabis cultivation and methamphetamine production; a major place for transnational drug trafficking networks that supply cocaine to Asia and Europe, heroin to Europe and North America, and methamphetamine to South Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand; traffickers also involved in the transportation, facilitation, and distribution of illicitly diverted tramadol