Income share of the poorest 20% — all countries

Income share of the poorest 20% — Nigeria

Income share of the poorest 20% in Nigeria in 2022 — 7.5%. Ranked 27 in the world out of 73. Since 1985, the indicator has risen by 1.5 pp.

2022 7.5% +0.4 pp vs 2018
World rank 27of 73
Period maximum 7.5%2022
Period minimum 3.7%1996

Trend over time

1985–2022 · % of income

Income share of the poorest 20% — Nigeria, 1985–202234567819851989199319972001200520092013201720211985: 6%1992: 4%1996: 3.7%2003: 5.7%2010: 7.1%2012: 7.1%2015: 7%2018: 7.1%2022: 7.5%
Change over the period: +1.5 pp Annual average: 0.04 pp
Income share of the poorest 20% — Nigeria, by year Nigeria All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 7.5
2018 7.1
2015 7
2012 7.1
2010 7.1
2003 5.7
1996 3.7
1992 4
1985 6

About the indicator

The share of total income or consumption that goes to the poorest twenty percent of the population. Under complete equality it would be twenty percent; in the most equal countries it comes to about nine, in the most unequal to about three. The indicator reads more plainly than the Gini index: instead of collapsing the whole distribution into a single number, it says outright how much goes to those who get the least.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups: the top and bottom quintiles of a group are not a union of national quintiles, and they cannot be computed from country shares. The same reason as with the Gini index.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.