# The World Bank prints about 139 million Nigerians in poverty

Date: 2025

## The fact

In October 2025 the World Bank’s Nigeria Development Update reported about 139 million people, 63 percent, living in poverty, up from about 87 million at the start of the [Tinubu](/people/econ-actor-bola-tinubu) administration.

## Context

Subsidy and naira sat as parents. Neighbouring scorecard 2026 itself called household welfare unfinished. He did not sit as the Bank.

Subsidy and naira 2023 are parents. Scorecard August 2026 is a child.

The President of Nigeria heads the federal executive, assents to bills, and sets CBN weather through appointments. He does not write an NNPCL pump print, a World Bank poverty line, an INEC certificate, or a state governor’s FAAC spend by himself. A 2027 ballot is not this page’s completed Fact. Chicago-State certificate weather remains allegation unless a court so holds on its own row.

## Evidence and sources

State House Nigeria carries the official instrument or communique. World Bank records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power): a completed independent poverty-stock print after the reform shock.

## What is established and what is not

Established: October 2025 World Bank print of ~139 million, independently reported.

Not established: that every added poor person was uniquely authored that month, or a unique later 2027 coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He owned the 2023–25 reform weather. States and CBN share the file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The World Bank prints about 139 million Nigerians in poverty, not a later speech about The World Bank prints about 139 million Nigerians in poverty.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The World Bank prints about 139 million Nigerians in poverty on 2025-10-15 is not a licence to treat every later State House Nigeria communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The World Bank prints about 139 million Nigerians in poverty into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Bank printed. He owned the 2023–25 reform weather. States and CBN share the file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Bola Ahmed Tinubu: https://factrail.ai/people/bola-tinubu

## Drivers

- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power
- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria
- https://statehouse.gov.ng/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ng-poverty-2025