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List of Nigerian States By Poverty Rates, If Yours Is Here….

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August 31, 2024

Cami Ezenwa

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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.

The estimates can therefore differ from other estimates, like the national poverty rate, the organisation informs.

For The Eagle, the idea is to alert the relevant authorities as t to doing the needful.

This is especially against the backdrop that whereas the country is richly endowed state by state, poverty has continued to pervade.

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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.

Here are now the list of 15 Nigerian States by poverty rates:

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$2.15 $3.65 $6.85

Nigeria 30.9% 63.5% 95.0% 2018

Taraba 80.4% 95.8% 99.3% 2018

Sokoto 79.9% 95.7% 99.2% 2018

Jigawa 78.8% 95.7% 99.5% 2018

Ebonyi 72.8% 92.9% 99.4% 2018

Adamawa 63.7% 92.7% 99.1% 2018

Zamfara 62.0% 93.2% 99.3% 2018

Yobe 59.0% 92.2% 99.2% 2018

Niger 55.3% 86.9% 98.7% 2018

Bauchi 49.7% 88.5% 99.0% 2018

Gombe 47.3% 84.1% 96.5% 2018

Nasarawa 44.2% 83.5% 98.4% 2018

Plateau 43.3% 75.8% 94.3% 2018

Katsina 41.6% 85.8% 98.5% 2018

Kano 40.9% 79.3% 96.6% 2018

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.