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Niger in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Niamey · Region: Sub-Saharan Africa · Income group: Low income

Niger recorded GDP per capita: 775 (2025), ranking 203 of 212 worldwide; Population: 27.92 million (2025), ranking 54 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 61.4 (2024), ranking 207 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: -4.45% (2025), ranking 185 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+4715%) and Inflation the largest decrease (-544%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.

Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 5 of 19 comparable series are higher and 14 are lower.

Its population of 27.92 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.

All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.

Indicators

IndicatorLatestYearChange
GDP21,646,191,388.252025+4715.3%
GDP per capita775.352025+504.6%
GDP growth7.01%2025+54.1%
Population27,917,8312025+696.5%
Population growth3.22%2025+11.2%
Urban population18.37%2025+221.8%
Inflation-4.45%2025-543.7%
Life expectancy61.432024+69.7%
Infant mortality65.62024-55.9%
CO2 per capita0.122024+162.7%
GDP (PPP)60,784,101,569.712025+892.5%
GDP per capita (PPP)2,177.252025+194.6%
Labor participation79.74%2025+1.1%
Unemployment0.39%2025-75.2%
Electricity access21.3%2024+384.1%
Internet users15.56%2024
Forest area0.82%2023-46.4%
Education spending4.07%2023+287.2%
Health spending4.05%2023-13.1%
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.