Verified Datasets in Nigeria
29 verified datasets for building in Nigeria. Every one has had its documentation, licensing and live status checked, not just listed. Last verified 24 Jun 2026.
GDP/CPI time-series (World Bank API)
Free, no-auth JSON API for Nigerian macro time-series: GDP, CPI inflation, FDI, remittances, employment and more. The best developer-accessible source for Nigerian economic data.
LGA Boundaries (GRID3)
Authoritative, OSGOF-backed LGA boundary polygons for all 36 states plus FCT (Dec 2020) in GeoJSON/SHP, no auth required.
ACLED conflict data
Event-level conflict and crime data with extensive Nigeria coverage (banditry, kidnapping, farmer-herder conflict, oil theft) via REST API, CSV and R/Python packages.
Recommended over the GTD, which is frozen at 2020.
BuyLetLive Price Index 2024
PDF report of Nigerian property price trends by city, the best public residential price data in a category with almost no open data.
Central Bank of Nigeria Statistics Database
Official online store of Central Bank of Nigeria time-series data across monetary, external, fiscal and real sectors (exchange rates, money-market rates, government securities, reserves, BoP), queryable via a Data Browser with monthly Naira exchange-rate tables exportable to Excel.
Education stats (UNESCO UIS API)
Free JSON API of national education indicators (literacy, net enrollment, completion, out-of-school children) covering Nigeria annually.
Energy time-series (World Bank + EIA)
Best developer-accessible Nigerian energy time-series: World Bank electricity-access % (no auth) and EIA energy production/consumption (free API key required).
FEWS NET Nigeria Staple Food Prices
Weekly staple-food market price data for Nigeria collected by FEWS NET enumerators since 2021, downloadable directly as XLSX, CSV and JSON with no registration, part of the FEWS NET markets-and-trade series and Data Explorer/API.
GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0
Geo-located health facility data published Nov 2024 on the GRID3 Data Hub in SHP/GeoJSON, no auth.
GRID3 Nigeria Settlement Extents v4.0
Geospatial dataset mapping Nigeria's settlements as settlement blocks with block-level building counts/areas, Google Open Buildings 2.5D heights, and Sentinel-2 NDVI/EVI metrics. Released March 2026 by CIESIN/Columbia in OGC GeoPackage format under CC BY-SA 4.0 via the GRID3 Data Hub.
Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG)
Multimodal Hausa-English dataset of 32,923 images with paired English/Hausa region descriptions (train/dev/test/challenge splits), post-edited by HausaNLP and Bayero University Kano translators for English-to-Hausa machine translation and image description.
Health Facility Registry (HUMDATA)
CSV of 39,081 geo-located Nigerian hospitals and clinics with name, type, LGA, state, coordinates and registration status; no login.
Use this HUMDATA mirror, the official HFR portal (hfr.health.gov.ng) has broken TLS as of June 2026. Last updated 2022.
NBS Nigeria Consumer Price Index & Inflation
Monthly Consumer Price Index and inflation dataset from Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics, published as downloadable Excel tables, ZIP bundles and PDF reports under rebased COICOP-2018 methodology, with releases through 2026.
NCC telecom stats
Rich Nigerian telecom industry stats (188M+ subscriptions, ~87% teledensity) published only as HTML web tables and annual PDF reports.
No CSV/API export, scraping is the only bulk-access path.
NERC quarterly reports
Rich quarterly regulatory data on DisCo performance, ATC&C losses, GenCo invoices and consumer connections.
Published only as PDFs, requires Camelot or Tabula to extract structured data.
NaijaSenti / AfriSenti
Largest Nigerian sentiment corpus (~30k tweets per language) covering Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin.
NaijaVoices
Largest African multilingual speech dataset (1,867 hours, May 2025) covering Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. Non-commercial license.
Nigeria General Household Survey (GHS-Panel) Wave 5
Nationally representative ~5,000-household panel survey (511 enumeration areas) by Nigeria's NBS under the World Bank LSMS-ISA program, covering household economic activity, consumption and agriculture for 2023-2024, with full questionnaires and DDI/JSON metadata.
Nigeria Real-Time Monthly Food Prices (World Bank)
Monthly food price estimates for ~13 commodities (rice, maize, beans, millet, sorghum, yam, gari, fish, meat) across 73 Nigerian markets, compiled by the World Bank from WFP/FAO and national sources, covering Jan 2007 through 2026 with downloadable files and a Data API.
Nigerian Pidgin ASR (nigerian-pidgin-1.0)
Speech-to-text corpus for Nigerian Pidgin English: 4,277 quality-filtered 16kHz WAV recordings with sentence-level transcriptions from 10 native speakers, split train 2,710 / val 677 / test 892, ~956 MB.
Nigerian Supreme Court cases
Open legal-text dataset of 5,585 Nigerian Supreme Court cases (1962–2022) in English. The only known open Nigerian legal ML dataset.
OSM school locations (HDX)
OpenStreetMap school location data on HDX (GeoJSON/CSV, monthly updates). Good urban coverage with significant rural gaps; no enrollment or quality data.
OpenCelliD Nigeria
Free cell-tower location dataset (CSV) covering all four Nigerian operators (MCC 621) with tower lat/lng, operator, RAT and signal strength on a rolling 18-month window. Rural coverage is sparse.
OpenStreetMap Nigeria Extract (Geofabrik)
Daily-updated OpenStreetMap data extract for Nigeria in .osm.pbf (~677 MB), ESRI shapefile .shp.zip (~2.0 GB) and .gpkg.zip (~2.0 GB), plus dated historical snapshots. Distributed by Geofabrik under ODbL.