Key economic metrics tracked across the 2015–2023 term — gdp growth rate, inflation rate, unemployment rate, naira / usd (official), petrol pump price, total public debt, external reserves, poverty headcount rate. Context for every other tab on this site.
Earliest (2015)
2.65%
Latest (Q1 '23)
2.31%
Change since 2015
-12.8%
Figures are full-year real GDP growth rates, except the final point which is a single quarter (Q1 2023).
Full-year real GDP growth as reported by the NBS. The economy fell into recession twice under Buhari — in 2016 after the oil price crash, and again in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic — with a modest rebound in the years following each contraction.
Source: NBS — GDP Report