The data, in your inbox
Once a month, one focused deep-dive: a single Nigerian indicator, tracked from 1996 to the present, framed by what's actually moving the country, a president's record, a line on the debt chart, an election outcome read against the data.
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What you'll get
One indicator per issue
A single indicator, debt-service ratio, oil rents, a sector growth rate, walked through three decades of context.
Live links to the data
Every chart links back to the corresponding page on the site, and every claim cites a primary source.
Context around the number
What moved it, which policy decision sits behind the line, and how Nigeria compares with relevant peers (Ghana, South Africa, Brazil).
Updates when the data updates
When the World Bank, IMF, or DMO drop new figures, we re-pull, re-run our analysis, and tell you what changed.
Built for
The intended audience
Journalists covering Nigerian policy and the economy; researchers working on African macro questions; policy professionals tracking fiscal, debt, and governance indicators; citizens and the diaspora who want to read the numbers themselves rather than headlines about them.
Editorial standards
The same standards as the rest of the project: every figure linked to its primary source (World Bank, IMF, INEC, DMO, CBN); explicit caveats where uncertainty is real; corrections published, dated, and recorded in the data diary.