Nigeria · Statistic
Capital Importation by Type of Investment
Balance of Payments · Source: CBN via NBS · quarterly
International comparability — CSA: Economic · BPM6 (IMF)Quarterly fresh foreign capital imported into Nigeria (bank-reported, excluding reinvested earnings), broken down by type of investment (FDI, Portfolio, Other Investment) and their nested sub-types. Compiled by the Central Bank of Nigeria (Trade and Exchange Dept) and published by NBS. Values in US$ million. Category rows and the grand TOTAL row are printed aggregates tagged is_aggregate; annual Total-year columns are stored as annual aggregate observations.
Observations
784
Q3 2013 – Q1 2026
Coverage
Nigeria
national
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Displayed series · 63 quarterly periods · Q3 2013 – Q1 20265 aggregate kind4 investment type8 sub type
Capital Importation by Type of Investment — Foreign Direct Investment was 135.08 in Q1 2026, against 195.28 in Q3 2013 — 63 quarterly periods.
Latest
135.08
Q1 2026
Minimum
29.828
Q2 2024
Maximum
2,277.04
2014
Range
29.828 – 2,277.04
lowest – highest observed
Periods
63
published points
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| Period | Foreign Direct InvestmentUSD Million |
|---|---|
| Q1 2026 | 135.08 |
| Q4 2025 | 357.8 |
| Q3 2025 | 296.25 |
| Q2 2025 | 142.67 |
| Q1 2025 | 126.29 |
| 2025 | 923.01 |
| Q4 2024 | 421.88 |
| Q3 2024 | 103.82 |
| Q2 2024 | 29.83 |
| Q1 2024 | 119.18 |
| 2024 | 674.71 |
| Q4 2023 | 183.97 |
Methodology and provenance
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Source document
Last updated 6 August 2026
- Table 1
Capital Importation by Type of Investment · Trade and Exchange, CBN
Originator/compiler: Central Bank of Nigeria (Trade and Exchange Dept); published by NBS. Canonical = latest vintage; per-observation source vintage in dimensions._source_vintage.
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- Originator
- Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
- Publisher
- National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
- Publication
- Capital Importation
- Printed source caption
- Trade and Exchange, CBN
- Publication reference
- NGA-NBS-CAPIMP
- Catalog record
- Catalog 143
"Capital Importation by Type of Investment", CBN via NBS, Capital Importation, ref. NGA-NBS-CAPIMP. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-capimp-by-investment-type-nga.
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Source: CBN via NBS. Source publication: Capital Importation. Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Catalogued by Prism; Q1 2026.