Key economic metrics tracked across the 2007–2010 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 (2007)
6.6%
Latest (Q1 '10)
7.4%
Change since 2007
+12.1%
⚠︎ Uses the pre-2014-rebase GDP methodology; not directly comparable to figures from later administrations shown elsewhere on this site.
Full-year real GDP growth as reported by the NBS, using the pre-2014-rebase methodology in effect at the time. Growth remained resilient through the global financial crisis, driven mainly by agriculture and telecoms rather than the oil sector.
Source: NBS — GDP Report