Commercial users: see the World Economic Database from our partners at Anansi Data Analytics

Nigeria: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 74 observations · cgovexp

2025
28.4 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+12.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+15.7%a year

Central government expenditure

Report error
100M1B10B100B1T10T100T19501960197019801990200020102020NigeriaNigeria
Local currency

Compare with other countries →Definition of Central government expenditure

Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
202528,399,864
202425,289,999
202318,608,999
202214,990,999
202113,969,999
202011,497,000
201910,981,000
20188,708,407
20176,863,505
20166,237,086

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Nigeria documentation (PDF)

More for Nigeria

Real GDP per capita (USD)Nominal GDPReal GDPInflationUnemployment rateGovernment debt (% of GDP)All 67 series →

Central government expenditure elsewhere

United StatesJapanGermanyUnited KingdomFranceIndia

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

GMD release 2026_09 · License & terms