Monthly spending on electricity consumption by households Nigeria 2023, by gender
Based on a survey conducted in 2023, the majority of Nigerians paid between 1,000 and 5,000 Nigerian naira (1.31 U.S. dollars and 6.54 U.S. dollars) monthly for their household's electricity consumption. Around 48 percent of men and 40 percent of women reported paying an amount within that pay band. Furthermore, the share of people generally decreased as the price increased, while around a fifth of the women claimed they did not know or refused to answer compared to 10 percent for men.