Nigeria poverty rate for 2018 was 88.70%, a 1.5% increase from 2015.
Nigeria poverty rate for 2015 was 87.20%, a 1.2% decline from 2012.
Nigeria poverty rate for 2012 was 88.40%, a 0.3% decline from 2010.
Nigeria poverty rate for 2010 was 88.70%, a 3.9% decline from 2003.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.