- ISO 3166
NG- Primary locale
en-NG- Currency
- NGN · Nigerian Naira
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Nigeria
Nigeria has 236.7M people, and 97.6M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 53%, one of 12 languages CLDR lists here. English and Yoruba are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to en-NG.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
97.6M
0%world median 81%100%
41% of 236.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$1,224
Higher than 12% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
63%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
12
English 53% · Nigerian Pidgin 21% · Hausa 13%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
61%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Nigeria
share of 236.7M people
- Englishofficial53%125.5M
- Nigerian Pidgin21%49.7M
- Hausa13%30.8M
- Igbo13%30.8M
- Yorubaofficial13%30.8M
- Nigerian Fulfulde7%15.9M
- Tiv2%3.8M
- Efik1%3.3M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 4 more languages sit below the top eight, at 3.3% combined.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against en-NG, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 April 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
₦1,234.56
1,234.56 in NGN · Nigerian Naira