Poverty headcount rate in Nigeria 2019, by area
According to governmental data from 2020, 18 percent of urban population and 52.1 percent of rural population in Nigeria lived in poverty as of 2019. Based on national standards, an individual with less than 137.4 thousand Nigerian Naira (roughly 361 U.S. dollars) per year is considered poor. In absolute numbers, this means that almost 83 million people in Nigeria lived in poverty (40.1 percent of the population).