World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Nigeria 2000
2007
Low-income group 2007
125 43 270 2.7 — 49
148 48 920 6.6 72 56
1,296 32 574 5.6 64 51
Nigeria
Economic and social context Population (total, million) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method (current US$) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–07 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% of ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%) Sector structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Sector performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscrib.) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Price basket for residential fixed line (US$/month) Price basket for mobile service (US$/month) Price basket for Internet service (US$/month) Price of call to United States (US$ for 3 minutes) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications ICT expenditure (% of GDP) E-government Web measure indexc Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, Dec. 2008)
Sub-Saharan Africa Region 2007
800 36 951 5.1 62 51
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 1,000 800 600 400 200
Yes Public
Yes Mixed
M C C
P P P
0.8 50 37.2
3.1 256 0.4
0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Nigeria Sub-Saharan Africa Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 40
3.3 301 —
4.7 499 —
30 20 10 0 2000
0.4 0.0 0.0 0.6 26
1.1 27.3 1.4 0.8 26
4.0 21.5 0.8 1.5 16
1.6 23.0 1.2 1.8 18
0.2 — 0.1
— — 6.8
— — 5.2
— — 4.4
38 0.0 0
60 0.0 5
54 3.4 26
56 3.1 36
— — — 7.15
7.4 16.3 40.8 1.49
5.7 11.2 29.2 2.00
12.6 11.6 43.1 2.43
0.0 3.4 —
0.0 6.9 —
1.4 6.7 —
1.1 8.2 4.2
— — 0.0
3.4 0.22 0.8
— 0.11 0.5
— 0.16 2.9
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 100 80 60 40 20 0
2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Nigeria Sub-Saharan Africa Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 8 6 4 2 0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Nigeria (—) Sub-Saharan Africa Region
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: Global Insight/WITSA, IMF, ITU, Netcraft, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources. Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. — Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal. a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0–1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.
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