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Nigeria Country profile

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March 2018

Nigeria overtook South Africa to become Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economy in 2012.  Measured against African yardsticks, Nigeria performs in line on measures of per capita income, creditworthiness, but lags on measures of business climate and growth. The sharp slump in oil prices in 2014 and geo-political upheavals have weighed heavily on the economy.

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This chart is a cobweb diagram showing how a country measures up on four important dimensions of economic performance—per capita income, annual GDP growth, business climate and creditworthiness. Per capita income is in current US dollars for 2018 as provided by the IMF. Annual GDP growth is for 2018. Business climate is measured by the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking of 190 countries. Creditworthiness attempts to measure a country's ability to honour its external debt obligations and is measured by its OECD country credit risk rating. The chart shows not only how a country performs on the four dimensions, but how it measures up against other comparable countries.