Prices in Nigeria 🇳🇬

In Nigeria, beer costs $0.35, mobile data costs $0.39 and cigarettes costs $0.50. That is 7 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in NGN, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

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 things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	no data
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	no data
Cappuccino	no data
Milk (1 litre)	no data
Eggs (dozen)	no data
Apples (1 kg)	no data
Gasoline (1 litre)	no data
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.23	1,662.5 NGN	3.3 h
Electricity (100 kWh)	$3.80	5,082.3 NGN	10.3 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$0.50	800 NGN	81 min
Beer (330ml)	$0.35	550 NGN	57 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$3.97	6,321.43 NGN	10.7 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.39	—	63 min
A day's healthy diet	$1.00	1,512.6 NGN	2.7 h

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Nigeria compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Nigeria is most expensive for spirits, where it ranks 36th out of 42 countries at $3.97, against a global median of $12.48.

It is relatively cheapest for cigarettes at $0.50, which is 49th of 49, only 0 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is spirits, at roughly 10.7 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Nigeria: 7.5% VAT. Ordinary groceries: a defined list of basic food items is zero-rated. Where these come from.

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Nigeria prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Nigeria?

Pricele publishes 7 everyday prices for Nigeria, each from a named source. Beer $0.35, Mobile data $0.39, Cigarettes $0.50. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.

What currency is used in Nigeria?

Nigeria uses the NGN. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.

What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Nigeria list?

Of the 7 items priced for Nigeria, the cheapest is Beer at $0.35 and the most expensive is Spirits at $3.97. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Nigeria prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Nigeria.