Nigeria in Overview
Nigeria Dialling Code
States & Capital
States & Local Government Area
Tourist Attraction
Weather
Naira Exchange Rate
Stock Qoutes
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Languges
English(official), Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, Fulani
Literacy
Age 15 and over can read and write (1995est.)
Total population:58% (mics)1999
Male:61.2%
Female:45%
Transportation
Railways:
- Total: 3,557 km
- Narrow guage:3,505km, 1067-mgaugastandard guage:52km
- 1,435-m gauge.
Highways:
- Total:194,394 km
- Paved: mostly bituminous surface treatment 60,068 km (including 1,194km of expressway)
- Unpaved: grand, crushed stone improved earth 134,326 km;(1998est.)
Waterways:
8575km consisting of Niger and Benue and smaller rivers and creeks.
Pipelines:
Crude oil 2,042km
Petroleum products 3,000km;
Natural gas 500km
Ports And Harbours:
Calabar, Lagos, Onne, port- Harcourt, Sapele, Warri.
Merchant Marine
Total: 41 ships
Ship by type: bulk 1, cargo 10, chemical tanker 4, petroleum tanker 24, specialized tanker 24, specialized tanker 1, roll /on roll off1 (2000est.)
Airports:
Total: 70 (2000est.)
With paved runways:34
Helicopters:1(2000est.)
Economy
National product.
GDP Purchasing power parity $117 billion (2001 est.)
GDP-Real growth rate:3.5%(2000est.)
GDP- per capital: purchasing power
Parity- $950(2000est.)
Population below poverty lines:
67.1%(1999est.)
Inflation rate
(consumer prices):13.8%
(2003 fos)
Labour Force
66 million (1999est.)
Unemployment rate:
28%(1992 est.)
Budget:
Revenues:$3.4 billion
Expenditures:$3.6 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (2000est.)
Exports:
$22.2 billion (f.o.b2000)
Commodities:petroleum and petroleum products 95% cocoa, rubber partners: US 36%, spain8%, India 9%, france 6%, Brazil 6% (1999est.)
Imports: $10.7 billion(f.o.b2000)
Import commodities:
Machinery, chemicals, transportastion equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals.
Partners:
UK 11%, us 9% , Germany10%, France 8%, china 6% (1999est.)
External debt: $32 billion (2000est.)
Electricity:
- Production:18.7 billion kWh (1999)
- Consumption 17.372 billion kWh (1999)
- Exports 19 million kWh (1999)
- Imports 0 million kWh (1999)
Electricity production by source:
- Fossil fuel:52.94%
- Hydro:47.06%
- Nuclear: 0%
- Other: ) % (1999est.)
Infrastructure
- Communications
- Transportation
Industries:
Crude oil, coal, tin, columbite, palm oil, peanuts, cotton, rubber, wood, hidesand skins, textile, cement, and other construction materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel
Manufacturing industries:
Textiles, cement, building materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer.
Agriculture
Cash crops- cocoa,peanuts, palm oil, rubber,food crops,-corn,rice,sorghum,millet,cassava,yams,livestock,cattle,sheep,goats,pigs,fishing,forestry, resources extensively exploited: see also foods and foodstuff in Nigeria
Economic reciepient :$39.2million (1995)
Currency:
1 Naira (=N=) =100kobo
Exchange rates:
Naira( =N=) per US $1-121
(February 2001)
Fiscal Year: Calendar year
Communication:
Telephone(main): 500,000 (2000est.)
Mobile: 750,000(2001est.)
Political & Government
Names:
Conventional long form: Federal Republic of Nigeria
Conventional short form: Nigeria: Nigeria
Data code:NIG
Flag: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), white, and Green.
Capital:Abuja
Administrative Divisions: 36 states and 1 Teritory
Independence: 1st October 1960(from UK)
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