Nigeria monetary and multidimensional poverty rates; different definitions and periods.
Nigeria’s official monetary-poverty rate was 40.1% in 2018/19, while the multidimensional-poverty rate was 63.0% in 2022. The measures use different definitions, survey frameworks and reference periods. The 22.9-point difference is therefore descriptive rather than a change over time. The page compares two official poverty lenses without merging them into one series.
Source 1: Multidimensional poverty — headline, area split, children, index values
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
Dataset/table: National Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022
Units: % of population / million persons / index
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports the source-backed values used for Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty Measures in Nigeria.
The two poverty measures use different definitions and reference periods and are not a time series.
Values follow the official Nigeria NBS definitions, periods and units. Where the release provides selected observations, the page reports them without interpolation.
All consequential values come from Nigeria NBS. Each value retains its official period, unit and measurement basis.
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