Pricele #105: Spirits (750ml bottle) in Nigeria 🇳🇬
The puzzle for 13 October 2026 asked what a 750ml bottle of spirits costs in Nigeria. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Spirits (750ml bottle) · Nigeria
$3.97
6,321.43 NGN
About 10.7 hours of the average local wage buys a 750ml bottle of spirits.
Cheaper than 85% of the 42 countries in the game.
Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand).
About spirits
This is the widest spread of any drink here, and two different things cause it. One is excise duty, which is usually charged per litre of pure alcohol and can be most of the shelf price in the Nordics or Oceania. The other is that the most sold spirit is soju in Korea, vodka in Poland and whisky in India, and those are not comparable products at comparable prices.
Where Nigeria sits
Of the 42 countries priced for spirits, Nigeria ranks #36 from the top at $3.97, 68% below the median of $12.48.
No country in this table has been repriced as violently in the last three years. The naira was floated in 2023 and the petrol subsidy removed in the same year, which multiplied the pump price several times over and reset almost every other price behind it. A Nigerian dollar figure is therefore a statement about the exchange rate at least as much as about a Nigerian shop. VAT is 7.5%, among the lowest anywhere and applied with a defined list of zero-rated basic foods, so the state is not what makes anything here expensive.
What else costs what in Nigeria
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diesel (1 litre) | $1.23 | 1,662.5 NGN | 3.3 h |
| Electricity (100 kWh) | $3.80 | 5,082.3 NGN | 10.3 h |
| Cigarettes (20-pack) | $0.50 | 800 NGN | 81 min |
| Beer (330ml) | $0.35 | 550 NGN | 57 min |
| Mobile data (1 GB) | $0.39 | — | 63 min |
| A day's healthy diet | $1.00 | 1,512.6 NGN | 2.7 h |
Go deeper
See the full table for spirits in every country or everything priced in Nigeria.