Nigeria · Statistic
Cost of a Healthy Diet by Food Group (national), Nigeria
Inflation & Prices · Source: NBS · monthly
International comparability — CSA: Economic · CPI Manual 2020National decomposition of the Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) across the six Healthy Diet Basket food groups (Starchy Staples, Oils and Fats, Fruits, Vegetables, Legumes Nuts and Seeds, Animal Source Foods), in nominal Naira per person per day. CoHD is a DERIVED least-cost metric, not an observed retail price. The six food-group costs are additive components of the national CoHD. Published monthly by the National Bureau of Statistics with GAIN. See the shared CoHD methodology and derived-metric caveat.
Observations
114
October 2024 – April 2026
Coverage
Nigeria
national
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Displayed series · 19 monthly periods · October 2024 – April 20266 dimension6 food group
Cost of a Healthy Diet by Food Group (national), Nigeria — Animal source foods was NGN 643 in April 2026, against NGN 506 in October 2024 — 19 monthly periods.
Latest
NGN 643
April 2026
Minimum
NGN 403
January 2025
Maximum
NGN 643
April 2026
Range
NGN 403 – NGN 643
lowest – highest observed
Periods
19
published points
Showing the latest 12 of 19 periods. The downloads carry every observation.
| Period | Animal source foodsNGN/person/day |
|---|---|
| April 2026 | 642.88 |
| March 2026 | 605.86 |
| February 2026 | 595.87 |
| January 2026 | 528.34 |
| December 2025 | 500.32 |
| November 2025 | 522.21 |
| October 2025 | 527.88 |
| September 2025 | 500.63 |
| August 2025 | 502.97 |
| July 2025 | 520.24 |
| June 2025 | 500.53 |
| May 2025 | 477.83 |
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Source document
Last updated 6 August 2026
Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) by Food Group (national) · Produced by NBS in collaboration with GAIN; technical support Food Prices for Nutrition project (Friedman School, Tufts / IFPRI / World Bank)
Publisher NBS (catalog 146). Originator/compiler: NBS in collaboration with GAIN + Food Prices for Nutrition project. Derived least-cost metric.
Definition
In the source publication’s own words.
In Nigeria, CoHD is the minimum cost of foods needed to meet international recommendations defined in the Healthy Diet Basket (HDB), a globally relevant set of criteria that captures similarities across most national Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) (Table 1). The HDB was created as a comparable standard to calculate and compare the cost and affordability of healthy diets across countries; the HDB is most relevant for countries where there is not yet a quantified national FBDG, like Nigeria.
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- Originator & publisher
- National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
- Publication
- Cost of a Healthy Diet
- Printed source caption
- Produced by NBS in collaboration with GAIN; technical support Food Prices for Nutrition project (Friedman School, Tufts / IFPRI / World Bank)
- Publication reference
- NGA-NBS-COHD
- Catalog record
- Catalog 146
"Cost of a Healthy Diet by Food Group (national), Nigeria", NBS, Cost of a Healthy Diet, ref. NGA-NBS-COHD. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-cohd-cost-of-healthy-diet-by-food-group-nga.
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Source: NBS. Source publication: Cost of a Healthy Diet. Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Catalogued by Prism; April 2026.