Number of people living in extreme poverty in Nigeria 2016-2025
As of 2022, an estimated population of 88.4 million people in Nigeria lived in extreme poverty, with the poverty threshold at 1.90 U.S. dollars a day. This stood as an increase from the previous year, when around 86.7 million people lived in the said state of poverty. The headcount was expected to maintain the rising trend by 2025, when over 93.7 million Nigerians might live on a maximum of 1.90 U.S. dollars per day.