Nigeria
Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Region
- Africa · Western Africa
- Capital
- Abuja
- Population
- 237,527,782 (2025)
- Government
- federal presidential republic
- Currency
- Nigerian naira (NGN)
- Official languages
- English
- Spoken languages
- English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani, over 500 additional indigenous languages
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 923,768 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- African Union, ECOWAS, IMF, OIC, OPEC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Benin , Cameroon , Chad , Niger
Political stability
32 / 100
Economic stability
27 / 100
Population stability
65 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- crude petroleum, natural gas, gold, fertilizers, cocoa beans (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, tanks and armored vehicles, wheat, plastics, cars (2023)
- Natural resources
- natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, arable land
- Primary route
- Lagos (Apapa/Lekki) to Europe and Asia
- Secondary route
- Gulf of Guinea feeder and overland ECOWAS corridors
The xin.bz view
- Nigeria is becoming part of Africa’s own energy-security answer: the Dangote refinery has driven a roughly sevenfold rise in seaborne fuel exports since 2023, and its ~3M t/year urea capacity adds a nitrogen source as global fertilizer tightens.
- It is also the world’s second-largest sorghum producer (7M t forecast for 2026/27) — a food-security staple consumed domestically, where drought, conflict, and storage losses create local shocks that never register in export markets.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Splitting Africa's Water Map — Just as the World Turns to the Continent for Food, Fertilizer, Fuel and Critical Minerals
A wetter Horn and a drier south, Southern Africa's grain and Kariba buffers, cocoa's port squeeze, Moroccan phosphate and Nigerian fuel as global substitutes, and the corridors that turn African resources into accessible supply.
Africa Is Building a Continental Trade System in Real Time: AfCFTA Moves From Treaty to Customs Gates, Payment Rails and Freight Corridors
AfCFTA's implementation era in 2026 — customs modernization, PAPSS payment expansion, the Abidjan-Lagos and Lobito corridors, and the regional manufacturing buildout reshaping intra-African trade.
The Fuel Dock Becomes the Next Shipping Chokepoint
Large-vessel bunker constraints are moving from refinery systems into global freight economics — a 218,000 b/d fuel-oil deficit, 12–15-day Singapore lead times, and the routes, industries and carriers that pay first.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Sorghum Is the Drought-Tolerant Grain Linking Food Security to U.S.–China Feed Trade
Sorghum deep dive — the U.S. supplies 50.6% of world exports and China takes 77.6% of imports, Kansas and Texas hold 82% of the U.S. crop, and one month of Plains drought cut USDA's forecast 22%.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.