Nigeria infrastructure, explained

A read-only public window into Nigeria’s infrastructure signals.

Infrastructure.civic.ng starts with verified Data Civic feeds, then turns those records into a public product that stays plain about what is known, what is missing, and where every number came from.

37 state pages are live through the roads series.2 of 4 sectors currently have state-backed data.No ingestion or storage duplicated here

Source layer status

Healthok

Datasets5

Indicators7

Access to electricity (% of population)2023

61.2 %

Up 0.7 percentage points since 2022.

Source: World Bank Open Data

Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)2024

70.76 subscriptions per 100 people

Down 27.72 subscriptions per 100 people since 2023.

Source: World Bank Open Data

Individuals using the Internet (% of population)2024

41.21 %

Up 1.15 percentage points since 2023.

Source: World Bank Open Data

State pages live

Individual state pages now open directly from the returned roads comparison feed.

Sectors with state-backed data

Roads are the first live state-backed sector in this app.

National-only sectors

Power, telecom, and water remain public national summaries until upstream state rows exist.

National versus state visibility

The app explains infrastructure by separating national signals from real state-backed views.

Infrastructure.civic.ng only consumes Data Civic APIs. It does not create a second registry, a second database, or a second ingestion pipeline. National sector pages stay strict about country-level scope, while the new states surface activates only where verified state rows already exist.

Open state comparisons Explore road state pages

State coverage by sector

What can be understood by state right now

This matrix is data-driven. It reflects only the sectors that returned verified state rows during the request and leaves the rest as national-only summaries.

Power

Data Civic currently exposes 1 power state-backed indicator with 37 state rows.

1 state-backed indicator

Roads

Data Civic currently exposes 1 roads state-backed indicator with 37 state rows.

1 state-backed indicator

Telecom

Telecom currently remains national-level only in infrastructure.civic.ng.

National-level only

Water

Water currently remains national-level only in infrastructure.civic.ng.

National-level only

Data limitations

The home page only reflects the category-filtered datasets, indicators, and verified infrastructure record filters returned by Data Civic during the request.
Water now has verified national records, while roads currently add one CivicNG-derived state-level estimate series; broader state-level coverage remains limited.
This app does not store, transform, or backfill infrastructure data locally. If the upstream feed changes, the rendered view changes with it.

Infrastructure datasets

Current upstream sources exposed by Data Civic

Dataset

World Bank Infrastructure Indicators — Nigeria

available

Infrastructure-relevant indicators for Nigeria including electricity access, mobile and fixed broadband subscriptions, and improved water and sanitation access.

Source: World Bank Open Data
Coverage: Nigeria (national)
Update cycle: Annual
Trust: institutional
Freshness: success · 15 May 2026

Limitations: Record-backed indicators are national World Bank series and should not be interpreted as state or LGA road coverage metrics.

Access to electricity (% of population)Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)People using at least basic drinking water services (% of population)

Dataset

HOTOSM Nigeria Roads

available

Curated Nigeria roads export derived from OpenStreetMap, suitable for routing, accessibility analysis, and infrastructure mapping.

Source: HOTOSM Export Tool
Coverage: Nigeria (national, vector geometry)
Update cycle: On-demand exports
Trust: community
Freshness: No refresh recorded yet

Limitations: This source is currently exposed as metadata-only in Data Civic; verified road records are not yet ingested for public metrics.

Roads by class (LineString)Estimated road length by LGA

Dataset

OpenStreetMap Nigeria Extracts

available

Country-level OpenStreetMap PBF and Shapefile extracts covering Nigeria roads, buildings, points of interest, and administrative boundaries.

Source: OpenStreetMap
Coverage: Nigeria (national, vector geometry)
Update cycle: Daily Geofabrik extracts
Trust: community
Freshness: No refresh recorded yet

Limitations: Data Civic currently registers this source as metadata-only and does not expose verified road metrics from the raw extract.

Building footprintsRoadsPoints of interest

Dataset

CivicNG-Derived Estimated Road Length by State

available

State-level estimated road length for Nigeria computed by CivicNG from audited road geometries and state boundary datasets using a reproducible processing script.

Source: CivicNG Derived Metrics
Coverage: Nigeria (state level, including FCT)
Update cycle: On-demand reproducible run
Trust: open data
Freshness: success · 15 May 2026

Limitations: This is a CivicNG-derived metric, not an official Nigerian government statistic.

Road length (km) by state

Dataset

Watchtower Curated City and Infrastructure Baselines

available

Shared baseline snapshot for CivicNG Watchtower covering supported city bounds, named watch areas, curated major road corridors, flood-watch polygons, and reference infrastructure signals.

Source: data.civic.ng
Coverage: Selected Nigerian Watchtower launch cities (currently 10 cities)
Update cycle: On-demand curated updates with explicit reference timestamps
Trust: open data
Freshness: No refresh recorded yet

Limitations: City boundaries, roads, and flood-watch polygons are curated reference geometry and should not be treated as survey-grade or legally authoritative boundaries.

Supported Watchtower city areas and centroidsCurated major road corridorsCurated flood-watch polygons

Infrastructure indicators

What the shared data layer says it can measure today

Indicator

Access to electricity (% of population) — Nigeria

Share of the Nigerian population with access to electricity.

Unit: % of population
Geography: Nigeria (national)
Time period: 1990–present (annual)
Source: World Bank Open Data

Indicator

Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — Nigeria

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 people for Nigeria.

Unit: subscriptions per 100 people
Geography: Nigeria (national)
Time period: 1990–present (annual)
Source: World Bank Open Data

Indicator

Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (% of population) — Nigeria

Share of Nigeria’s population with access to clean cooking fuels and technologies.

Unit: % of population
Geography: Nigeria (national)
Time period: 2000–present (annual)
Source: World Bank Open Data

Indicator

People using at least basic drinking water services (% of population) — Nigeria

Share of Nigeria's population using at least basic drinking water services.

Unit: % of population
Geography: Nigeria (national)
Time period: 2000–present (annual)
Source: World Bank Open Data

Indicator

Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — Nigeria

Share of Nigeria’s population using the Internet.

Unit: % of population
Geography: Nigeria (national)
Time period: 1990–present (annual)
Source: World Bank Open Data

Indicator

Estimated road length by LGA

Estimated total road length per Nigerian LGA computed from OpenStreetMap road geometries via HOTOSM exports.

Unit: kilometers
Geography: Nigeria (LGA)
Time period: Snapshot per export
Source: HOTOSM Export Tool

Indicator

Road length (km) by state — CivicNG derived estimate

Estimated road length in kilometers for each Nigerian state, computed by CivicNG from audited source geometries and administrative boundaries.

Unit: km
Geography: Nigeria (state, including FCT)
Time period: Snapshot year by processing run
Source: CivicNG Derived Metrics