Trott Bailey Family Abundance · Country Profile
Nigeria
Country profile & diagnostic reading
Data updatedEvidence through 31 Mar 2026TBF Rank TBF Rank Rank compares only published profiles. It follows the TBF Abundance Score, not GDP size, and can move when a country score changes or when another country enters the published table. Read Small Island Abundance Theory
Global standing based on life reachability
NigeriaTrending down: previously #187, now #192.Recent recorded movements
- #187 → #1926 Oct 2026 · 19:42 GMT-0500
- #184 → #1876 Oct 2026 · 18:46 GMT-0500
National Abundance Gate Money Gate 20 Food, Housing / Land, Healthcare, Transportation and Water / Energy are four points each. All five must reach 4/4 before the country can cross zero. Money may still exist as an exchange tool; it cannot remain the permission slip for these five basics. Read Money Is a Weak Civilization Engine
Graded status · five basics not fully cleared
Research Coverage Research coverage Coverage tells you how much of the weighted domestic framework has publishable evidence. Missing research stays missing; it is not silently converted into a zero score. Explore Trott Bailey Kingdom Systems
14 / 16 categories scored
GDP Rank GDP Rank GDP rank is context only. It can show how much money and production move through an economy, but it contributes zero points to the TBF Abundance Score. Read Make the World Truly Productive Again
Shown for context, not as the abundance ranking
Money Gate 20 · Overall Gate 0.7.0
Five basics stand between this country and zero
The five-part direct reading is still pending. Missing gate readings remain pending rather than being converted into invented free-access points.
Food Food · 4 points Full credit means nutritious food is ordinary civilization provision without a checkout or poverty test. School meals and other narrow institutional routes can earn limited partial credit without being mistaken for free food abundance. Read A Civilization Laid Out in Orchards
Housing / Land Housing / Land · 4 points Full credit means families can secure a home or suitable productive ground without rent, purchase price or mortgage debt deciding whether they may remain sheltered and grounded. Read the Distributed Founding Nuclei Strategy
Healthcare Healthcare · 4 points Full credit requires dependable no-payment care across prevention, primary care, maternity, dentistry, medicine, emergency treatment and necessary specialist care. Read Money Zombie Outbreaks
Transportation Transportation · 4 points Full credit means ordinary movement is free across the routes people actually need. A free Sunday, one route or a temporary promotion earns only limited credit. Read The Caterport: Free Human Movement
Water / Energy Water / Energy · 4 points Full credit requires both safe water and essential household energy to stay available without payment deciding whether cooking, cooling, washing, pumping or food preservation stops. Read Nucleus Formation Stewards
16-category profile
All categories at a glance
Each bar uses the same −100 to +100 evidence scale. Zero is the center line. Select a scored category to jump to its full reading, sources and evidence.
Category readings & evidence
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9% weightHuman Time & Burden Return
+10.0
Whether productivity, infrastructure and institutions return usable lifetime to people and families.
TBFC target: Necessary contribution should not require people to sell most of their waking life merely to retain access to food, shelter, care and ordinary family life.
Access-gate research question: How much paid work or income-producing activity is required before an ordinary household can keep access to basic life, and what usable family time remains afterward?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
High employment and low headline unemployment coexist with 93% informal employment, low wage-employment reach and material underemployment. The score credits human productive capacity without treating precarious work as returned human time.
Published indicators
National Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
Source
8% weightHousing, Shelter & Housing Reach
+17.5
Whether adequate shelter physically exists and actually reaches people without excessive cost, exclusion or vacancy mismatch.
TBFC target: Adequate family shelter should remain reachable without lifetime dependence on rent, mortgage debt or ability to pay.
Access-gate research question: What share of ordinary shelter access depends on rent, mortgage debt, purchase price or other recurring payment, and what dependable non-market routes exist at national scale?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
High household ownership, especially rurally, is a real shelter asset. Large urban-rural differences, sanitation gaps and informal waste disposal reduce housing reach and quality.
Published indicators
National Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
Source
9% weightFood, Nourishment & Free Food Abundance
+6.0Base +4.5 · Adoption +1.5
Base +4.5 · Adoption +1.5
Physical food and nutrient capacity, nourishment reach, waste/loss, public edible landscapes and free food access.
TBFC target: Nutritious food should exist in multiplying abundance and remain reachable even when a household has no money to spend.
Access-gate research question: Can people obtain adequate nutritious food when they cannot pay, and are free/public/productive-food routes large enough to be ordinary rather than exceptional?
Abundance Gap: +94.0
Nigeria has immense agricultural capacity, but current national food-access outcomes are severe: 36.3 million people were projected in Crisis-or-worse acute food insecurity for the 2026 lean season, while child stunting remains 40%.
Published indicators
FAO · 2026
SourceFAO · 2026
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
Nigeria has extensive crop, livestock and fisheries capability, but current access outcomes remain poor enough that capacity cannot be treated as nourishment reach.
National Bureau of Statistics / World Bank
6% weightWater & Sanitation Abundance
-3.8
Safe water, sanitation, reliability, capture, reuse, storage and living-landscape water capacity.
TBFC target: Safe water and sanitation should be dependable life infrastructure, not conditional on household purchasing power.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain safe water and sanitation when income falls, and which payment, disconnection or infrastructure barriers interrupt access?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
Water resources and infrastructure capacity are substantial, but safely managed drinking water, sanitation and household handwashing remain available to only around one-third of people.
Published indicators
United Nations Statistics Division · 2024
SourceUnited Nations Statistics Division · 2024
SourceUnited Nations Statistics Division · 2024
SourceUnited Nations Statistics Division · 2024
Source
5% weightEnergy & Household Capability
+4.5
Whether usable, reliable energy reaches households and removes burdens across water, food, health, cooling, cooking and movement.
TBFC target: Essential household energy should support cooking, cooling, water, food preservation and care without money becoming the switch that turns basic capability on or off.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain essential energy for cooking, cooling, water and food preservation when they cannot pay, and how often does price or disconnection reduce capability?
Abundance Gap: +15.0
Electricity and distributed generation provide meaningful capacity, but national household connection remains incomplete, rural reach is low and frequent outages materially constrain household capability.
Published indicators
Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / DHS · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / DHS · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / DHS · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / DHS · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
Source
7% weightHealth & Care Reach
+5.5
Whether prevention, primary care, medicine, maternity care, dentistry and specialist capability reach people when needed.
TBFC target: Prevention, maternity, dentistry, medicine and necessary treatment should be reachable because care is needed, not because payment can be produced.
Access-gate research question: Can necessary care be obtained because it is needed, or do price, insurance, employment, debt or other financial tests materially delay or prevent access?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Large health-system capacity and improving child survival are credited, while skilled birth attendance, postnatal reach and mortality outcomes show that care is still not reliably reachable across the population.
Published indicators
Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare · 2024
Source
6% weightEducation & Human Capability
+5.5
Foundational learning plus practical, technical and enduring civilization capability retained by people.
TBFC target: Foundational learning and useful capability should be reachable as part of civilization life rather than purchased according to family income.
Access-gate research question: Which essential learning and capability routes are genuinely reachable regardless of family income, and where do fees, debt or paid enrichment create decisive access gaps?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Nigeria has a very large education system and meaningful participation, but net attendance of only about half of primary- and secondary-age children leaves major capability unrealized.
Published indicators
The DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
Source
4% weightMobility & Reachability
+10.5
Local, regional and national movement that connects people to family, services, work, learning and public life without consuming excessive time.
TBFC target: Ordinary local and regional movement should be available for family, care, learning and civic life without travel becoming a paywall.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary people reach family, care, learning and public life without high recurring fares, vehicle costs, debt or fuel dependence?
Abundance Gap: +15.0
Nigeria has extensive road, aviation and growing rail capacity, but road casualties, congestion and uneven urban/rural access create substantial reach and safety friction.
Published indicators
Federal Road Safety Corps · 2024
SourceFederal Road Safety Corps · 2024
SourceFederal Road Safety Corps · 2024
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
NBS reported Q3 2024 rail passenger traffic 25.05% above the same quarter of 2023, evidence of expanding usable rail capacity.
National Bureau of Statistics
8% weightFamily Formation, Continuity & Child Stability
Fertility agenda · target 5.0
Family continuity is measured partly by whether children are actually multiplying. New and re-reviewed profiles use total fertility as 40% of Family Formation: 2.1 births per woman is the replacement floor and earns positive but limited credit; the authored target is 5.0.
Read A Civilization Built for Mothers and Fathers
+9.8
Conditions that let people form stable families, raise children, share parental time and continue family life without punishing material barriers.
TBFC target: People should be able to form, continue and multiply family life. Trott Bailey Family Civilization uses 5.0 children per woman as the fertility target; 2.1 is the replacement floor, not the aspiration, while housing, care, food and time should not be withheld behind financial thresholds.
Access-gate research question: How strongly do housing, childcare, health, food and work-income requirements delay or destabilize family formation and continuity, and is total fertility moving above replacement toward the 5.0-children-per-woman civilization target?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Strong family formation and high fertility coexist with serious child-identity and maternal-care gaps. The score avoids treating family size itself as abundance and focuses on stability, child continuity and reachable support.
Published indicators
The DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceThe DHS Program / Nigeria · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
Forty percent of children under five are registered with civil authorities, leaving legal identity and access friction for many children.
The DHS Program
5% weightLand Access & Spatial Freedom
+27.0Base +24.0 · Adoption +3.0
Base +24.0 · Adoption +3.0
Whether land and settlement choice reach ordinary people rather than opportunity being functionally trapped inside expensive commercial centres.
TBFC target: Suitable productive land and settlement opportunity should not be functionally reserved for those able to outbid everyone else.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary families gain secure use of suitable productive ground without first accumulating enough money to purchase, finance or outbid others?
Abundance Gap: +73.0
Nigeria has enormous land capacity and widespread rural agricultural land access. Urban access and formal-title/tenure friction reduce practical spatial freedom.
Published indicators
Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / DHS · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / DHS · 2024
SourceFederal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / DHS · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
The 2023-24 GHS land inventory explicitly distinguishes plots with formal property rights, family/community land, rental and use rights, showing why physical access and formal control must be audited separately.
National Bureau of Statistics / World Bank
6% weightPeace of Mind, Happiness, Beauty & Delight
+12.5
Peace of mind, social support, everyday safety, public beauty, recreation, nature, culture and delight reachable without constant payment.
TBFC target: Beauty, nature, recreation, rest and public delight should belong to ordinary life rather than appearing mainly after payment.
Access-gate research question: How much everyday rest, nature, recreation, culture and public beauty is freely reachable, rather than principally accessed through paid venues, travel or private property?
Abundance Gap: +35.0
Nigeria has enormous cultural and natural-delight capacity, but current life-evaluation and displacement/security evidence show that access to peace of mind and delight is uneven.
Published indicators
World Happiness Report · 2026
SourceWorld Happiness Report · 2026
SourceFAO · 2026
SourceVerified evidence
Nigeria has exceptional cultural, coastal, savannah and forest landscapes, while security, displacement and economic stress materially reduce the ability of many households to enjoy that capacity.
World Happiness Report
6% weightLiving Ground, Biodiversity & Resilience
+20.3Base +18.8 · Adoption +1.5
Base +18.8 · Adoption +1.5
Whether soil, forests, wetlands, habitat, pollinators, species and water-holding landscapes are strengthening rather than being consumed.
TBFC target: Regenerating soil, water, habitat and food-bearing landscapes should be maintained as shared life-supporting capacity rather than only where a transaction makes them profitable.
Access-gate research question: Are regenerative land, water and habitat functions maintained as life-supporting infrastructure even when no direct commercial return is available?
Abundance Gap: +79.8
Nigeria retains major ecological and biodiversity capacity, but forest pressure, pollution, climate vulnerability and land degradation remain substantial. Current restoration and circular-economy measures receive return credit without being treated as completed recovery.
Published indicators
World Bank · 2023
SourceWorld Bank · 2022
SourceWorld Bank · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
Nigeria reports expanded restoration, carbon-market and circular-economy measures, but commitments are treated as return capacity rather than proof that ecological loss has been reversed.
Federal Ministry of Environment
5% weightJustice, Safety & Institutional Friction
-0.8
Physical safety, usable justice, legal identity, reliable public administration and low needless institutional burden.
TBFC target: Usable justice, legal identity, safety and ordinary administration should remain accessible regardless of wealth.
Access-gate research question: Do fees, legal costs, bail, fines, documentation costs or ability to hire expertise materially change access to justice, safety or public administration?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Nigeria has functioning national institutions and some recent rule-of-law improvement, but low WJP standing, high remand detention and prison overcrowding represent severe institutional friction.
Published indicators
World Justice Project · 2025
SourceWorld Justice Project · 2025
SourceWorld Prison Brief · 2026
SourceWorld Prison Brief · 2025
Source
4% weightDurability, Repair & Material Return
+11.0
Whether useful materials, infrastructure and goods are maintained, repairable, recovered and cycled instead of repeatedly becoming waste.
TBFC target: Repair, maintenance and useful material circulation should protect capability instead of forcing repeated repurchase as the default route to continued use.
Access-gate research question: Do repair and maintenance remain practically accessible, or do pricing, proprietary restrictions and replacement incentives turn continued use into repeated purchasing?
Abundance Gap: +15.0
Repair and reuse are economically significant in Nigeria and formal circular-economy/EPR systems are expanding. Large informal waste disposal and incomplete collection/recycling infrastructure still prevent strong material return.
Published indicators
Federal Ministry of Environment · 2025
SourceNational Bureau of Statistics (Nigeria) · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
NESREA states that its EPR framework is implemented for used tyres, plastics, used electrical/electronic equipment and used lead-acid batteries, assigning producers responsibility for recovery, recycling and safe disposal.
NESREAThe 2023/24 GHS reports 45.6% of households disposing refuse in bushes or streets, a major return-system gap despite policy and EPR infrastructure.
National Bureau of StatisticsAbundance Adoption
Verified public uptake of the thinking
Eligible signals can add a bounded bonus to an already-scored relevant category. They do not create missing scores or clear the national money gate.
Nigerian agricultural publication carried the Trott Bailey Abundance Principle directly into a Nigeria food-security argument, including free food and measurement beyond GDP.
Open publicationNigerian agricultural publication carried Foodway, Life-upon-Life field observation and Friction Economy thinking into a Nigerian agricultural context.
Open publicationNigerian national online media published the Foodway / Abundance argument for productive public and everyday land, moving the idea into national public discussion.
Open publicationTrott Bailey Family Civilization Target
The end state: life beyond monetary gatekeeping
Trott Bailey Family Civilization treats money as an exchange tool rather than a prerequisite for access to life. The long-run abundance target is that food, water, shelter, care, education, mobility, land access and ordinary public life remain reachable even when a person cannot pay.
This target is an authored civilization standard. The diagnostic evidence score can now draw from all 16 weighted categories. The five-part Money Gate remains a separate domestic threshold asking whether food, housing/land, healthcare, transportation and water/energy are genuinely reachable without payment before any civilization can cross zero.
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