Nigeria: concern for different crimes

As of January 2023, Nigerians reported being most worried about getting things stolen from their car. The level of concern about this stood at 67.28 points, on a scale from zero to 100, where 100 represents the highest concern. Some other crimes causing high levels of worry in the country were robbery, burglary, theft, and attacks.

Levels of concern related to different crimes in Nigeria as of January 2023

Characteristic	Level of concern
Things from car stolen	67.28
Being mugged or robbed	65.22
Home broken and things stolen	64.34
Being attacked	62.39
Car stolen	62.32
Being insulted	58.38
Being subject to a physical attack because of your skin color, ethnic origin, gender or religion	44.93

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Release date

January 2023

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Region

Nigeria

Survey time period

2019 to 2023*

Number of respondents

368 respondents

Supplementary notes

* The source adds the following information: "These data are based on perceptions of visitors of this website in the past 3 years."
"If the value is 0, it means it is perceived as very low, and if the value is 100, it means it is perceived as very high."
"Our data for each country are based on all entries from all cities in that country."

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