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When the naira was introduced, it had an official exchange rate of US$1.52 for ₦1, though a currency black market existed in which the naira traded at a discount relative to the official exchange rate. The official exchange rate set by the Central Bank of Nigeria: naira to U.S. dollar is approximately ₦767.54 per 1 US dollar.
For purchasing power parity comparisons, the US dollar is exchanged at US$1 to 314.27 Nigerian naira (as of 2017). [53] The current GDP per capita of Nigeria expanded 132% in the sixties reaching a peak growth of 283% in the seventies. But this proved unsustainable, and it consequently shrank by 66% in the 1980s. [54]
In the main city Lagos it went up from 858 naira ($0.52) to 1,025 naira per litre. One of the major factors in Nigeria’s economic crisis has been a limited supply of foreign currency.
The Nigerian aviation industry generated 198.62 billion naira (€400 million) in 2019, representing a contribution of 0.14% to GDP. It was the fastest-growing sector of the Nigerian economy in 2019. Passenger traffic increased from 9,358,166 in 2020 to 15,886,955 in 2021, a significant increase of over 69%.
According to TNS Financial Services, as reported by CNN Money, 2 million households in the US alone had a net worth of at least $1 million excluding primary residences in 2005. [31] According to TNS, in mid-2006 the number of millionaire US households was 9.3 million, with an increase of half a million since 2005. [ 32 ]
1.1 Billion: Foods 2015. 2015 [14] World ranking Name Citizenship Net worth Sources of wealth 67: Aliko Dangote
Numbers of US dollar millionaires by world region per Credit Suisse (2022) [2] Rank Region Numbers (in thousands) Percentage of world total numbers As percentage of total adult population - World 62,489 100.0 1.1 1 Northern America: 26,778 41.9 9.5 2 Europe: 16,696 26.7 2.8 3 Asia-Pacific: 10,755 17.2 0.8 4 China: 6,190 9.9 0.6 5 Latin America ...
Since inception, $1.35 million of grant has been given to 110 recipients from 28 African countries. [ 9 ] In 2023, the Future Africa Leaders Foundation donated 500 million naira to the development of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Ogun State, Nigeria.