Nigeria by numbers
One fifth of Africans live in Nigeria. The country has the second largest economy on the continent with annual GDP of $71 Billion. Nigeria has a federal structure with 36 states. A multi-religious society, it has 250 ethnic groups speaking over 350 languages and dialects. The major languages are English, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa. Nigeria is the 13th largest oil producer in the world with 32 billion barrels of oil reserves (sufficient for 37 years). The country’s gas reserves will last for 110 years at current rates of usage. Oil and gas income combined is worth about 50 cents per person a day. Of 135 million Nigerians, 75 million live in absolute poverty. Only India and China have larger numbers of poor people living within their borders. More than one in twenty (5.8%) of Nigerians lives with HIV/AIDS. There are 1 million AIDS orphans. Life expectancy for both men and women is 43 years according to the UN. More than seven million children, mostly girls, do not go to primary school. One c...