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What is your naira really worth today?

Compare what an amount bought you back then against what it buys now, across the categories Nigerians actually spend on — food, FX, fuel, rent, telecom, building materials. Sourced from NBS bulletins, CBN releases, parallel-market archives, and our own daily scrapes.

Pick the year you want to compare. We'll show what ₦10,000 bought back then vs today, by category.

The answer

₦10,000 back in Jan 2020 has the buying power of ₦63,793 today in petrol (per litre), but only ₦1,067 in garri (bag).

By category

Petrol (per litre)
₦63,793
Was ₦145 · now ₦925 · +84% inflation
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Lagos → Abuja bus
₦60,588
Was ₦8,500 · now ₦51,500 · +83% inflation
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2-bed flat rent (Lagos)
₦47,500
Was ₦800,000 · now ₦3,800,000 · +79% inflation
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GBP → NGN
₦38,830
Was ₦470 · now ₦1,825 · +74% inflation
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USD → NGN
₦38,111
Was ₦360 · now ₦1,372 · +74% inflation
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Cement (50kg bag)
₦35,849
Was ₦2,650 · now ₦9,500 · +72% inflation
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Rice (50kg bag)
₦34,872
Was ₦19,500 · now ₦68,000 · +71% inflation
5KVA generator
₦24,103
Was ₦195,000 · now ₦470,000 · +59% inflation
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MTN 5GB monthly data
₦13,333
Was ₦1,500 · now ₦2,000 · +25% inflation
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Garri (bag)
₦1,067
Was ₦7,500 · now ₦800 · -838% inflation

What we track

10 series with anchored historical reference points going back to 2020. Each anchor below is recoverable from a named public source — NBS, CBN, AbokiFX, PropertyPro, or the operator's own published tariff.

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USD → NGN
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 6 reference points
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GBP → NGN
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 4 reference points
Petrol (per litre)
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 8 reference points
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Cement (50kg bag)
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 6 reference points
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Rice (50kg bag)
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 6 reference points
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Garri (bag)
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 4 reference points
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MTN 5GB monthly data
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 4 reference points
5KVA generator
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 4 reference points
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2-bed flat rent (Lagos)
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 4 reference points
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Lagos → Abuja bus
Anchored from 2020-01-15 · 4 reference points

Methodology

Between anchored dates we linearly interpolate. That's an approximation — actual prices don't move in straight lines — but it's honest about what we know and what we're estimating. Today's value is read from the daily snapshot archive when available (started 2026-05-23) — so the calculator updates daily without manual anchor edits. Older anchors remain hand-curated from named sources.

  • FX rates are parallel-market / market-rate equivalents (not official CBN window).
  • Fuel uses the PPPRA cap pre-May 2023 and NBS bulletin averages thereafter.
  • Cement uses Dangote's ex-factory price (the market-leader benchmark).
  • Food uses NBS Selected Food Prices bulletin medians.
  • Rent uses PropertyPro's half-yearly Lagos mainland averages.
  • Where an anchor is missing for a year, we interpolate from the bracketing dates.
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The inflation index, weekly.

When the cement, rice or USD line moves, the weekly digest leads with it — alongside what the official NBS CPI release said the same week.

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