This is a list of Nigerian states by poverty rates. If yours is listed, obviously, your governor needs to up his game. Though the figures are as at 2019, not much has changed with the demographics giving present realities, including everyday media intelligence. According to Wikipedia, the international poverty rate used by the World Bank is what has been used in collating the data for this Nigerian States By Poverty Rates.
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It is the Percent of population living on less than $2.15, $3.65 and $6.85 a day, international dollars (2017 PPP) as per the World Bank.
Nigeria launches its most extensive national measure of multidimensional poverty.
The Eagle reports that when in 2022 the Federal Government through the National Bureau of Statistics launched results of the 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey., the poverty picture was no less grim.
IT was a collaborative effort between the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
Amongst others , it stated that
- 65% of the poor (86 million people) live in the North, while 35% (nearly 47 million) live in the South.
- Poverty levels across States vary significantly, with the incidence of multidimensional poverty ranging from a low of 27% in Ondo to a high of 91% in Sokoto.
- Over half of the population of Nigeria are multidimensionally poor and cook with dung, wood or charcoal, rather than cleaner energy. High deprivations are also apparent nationally in sanitation, time to healthcare, food insecurity, and housing.
