Nigeria vs Southern Africa: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$, 2015 prices
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$, 2015 prices over time
- Nigeria
- Southern Africa
How they compare
Nigeria currently reports 577,512 million USD against 401,475 million USD in Southern Africa, a difference of 176,037 million USD.
That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.4 times Southern Africa's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Southern Africa ahead.
Nigeria ranks 24th and Southern Africa ranks 26th of 203 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Nigeria averaged higher in 2 and Southern Africa in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Nigeria | Southern Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 123,274 million USD | 127,385 million USD | 4,111 million USD | Southern Africa |
| 1980s | 129,819 million USD | 166,452 million USD | 36,634 million USD | Southern Africa |
| 1990s | 162,525 million USD | 205,600 million USD | 43,076 million USD | Southern Africa |
| 2000s | 268,182 million USD | 285,427 million USD | 17,244 million USD | Southern Africa |
| 2010s | 470,362 million USD | 371,277 million USD | 99,085 million USD | Nigeria |
| 2020s | 542,352 million USD | 390,736 million USD | 151,615 million USD | Nigeria |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$, 2015 prices, Nigeria or Southern Africa?
- Nigeria, at 577,512 million USD against 401,475 million USD in Southern Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$, 2015 prices between Nigeria and Southern Africa?
- 176,037 million USD, with Nigeria ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Nigeria and Southern Africa?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Nigeria and Southern Africa rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$, 2015 prices?
- Nigeria ranks 24th and Southern Africa ranks 26th of 203 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$, 2015 prices. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
Individual pages
About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).