Nigeria · Statistic
Imports by BEC category
Foreign Trade Statistics · Source: NBS · annual
International comparability — CSA: Economic · IMTS 2010Imports by Broad Economic Category for Nigeria, 2018-2022, across 29 Broad Economic Categories (BEC). Figures are in NGN million. Source: National Bureau of Statistics.
Observations
957
2018 – Q1 2026
Coverage
Nigeria
national
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Displayed series · 33 annual periods · 2018 – Q1 20262 frequency30 measure
Imports by BEC category — Annual · 1 Food and Beverage was NGN 7.7m in 2025, against NGN 1.4m in 2018 — 8 annual periods.
Latest
NGN 7.7m
2025
Minimum
NGN 1.4m
2018
Maximum
NGN 7.7m
2025
Range
NGN 1.4m – NGN 7.7m
lowest – highest observed
Periods
8
published points
Showing the latest 12 of 33 periods. The downloads carry every observation.
| Period | Annual · 1 Food and BeverageNGN Million |
|---|---|
| Q1 2026 | — |
| Q4 2025 | — |
| Q3 2025 | — |
| Q2 2025 | — |
| Q1 2025 | — |
| 2025 | 7,653,559.92 |
| Q4 2024 | — |
| Q3 2024 | — |
| Q2 2024 | — |
| Q1 2024 | — |
| 2024 | 6,578,810.08 |
| Q4 2023 | — |
Methodology and provenance
Where this data comes from and when Prism last updated it.
Source documents
Last updated 29 August 2026
Last updated 28 July 2026
- Table 348
Imports by Broad Economic Category - Values, 2018-2022 · page 439 · National Bureau of Statistics
Imports classified by Broad Economic Categories, NGN million. One section-header row ("ECONOMIC CATEGORIES a. Value (NGN million)") and the "Total Imports" row are staged as raw_rows but produce no observations - the total duplicates Table 335 Imports, which owns it. BEC labels are NOT unique on their own: "Primary", "Processed", "Mainly for industry", "Parts and accessories" and "Other" each appear under several parents, so the numeric BEC code is the identity and carries into the slug. This table's labels are canonical where they differ from Table 349. DEFINITIONAL BREAK 2022 (QA 2026-07-28): BEC code 321 Motor spirit reads 0.00 in 2022 while 322 Other rises to 9,978,991.72 = the whole of parent 32 Processed. NBS stopped splitting the category; pdf page 439 prints a literal 0.00, not a dash. Faithful, but 321 must not be read as a collapse - take 321 and 322 together from 2022.
- TABLE 7
Imports by Broad Economic Category · The data sources for the compilations include; The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) through the Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICIS), Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Various companies in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil industry, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Arlington Securitas Nigeria Limited, Robinson International Energies Ltd, Trobell International Nigeria Ltd, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd (NLNG), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Anglia International Limited, Neroli Technologies Limited, Gojopal Nigeria Limited, Nigerian Export Processing Zone Agency (NEPZA), Oil and Gas Free Zone Agency (OGFZA), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics. Originator/compiler: the printed Source caption names many bodies (Nigeria Customs Service through NICIS, NNPCL, NMDPRA, NLNG, CBN and others); a single source_provider_id cannot express that, so it is left unresolved with the caption verbatim rather than defaulted to NBS. This ingest is observation-grained: the extractor emitted one row per observation with a cell-level source_ref and no printed-row capture, so row_count counts staged observations, not printed rows, and no raw_rows are staged.
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- Originator & publisher
- National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
- Publication
- Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics Q3 2024 - Q1 2026 (7 quarterly vintages)
- Printed source caption
- National Bureau of Statistics and The data sources for the compilations include; The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) through the Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICIS), Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Various companies in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil industry, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Arlington Securitas Nigeria Limited, Robinson International Energies Ltd, Trobell International Nigeria Ltd, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd (NLNG), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Anglia International Limited, Neroli Technologies Limited, Gojopal Nigeria Limited, Nigerian Export Processing Zone Agency (NEPZA), Oil and Gas Free Zone Agency (OGFZA), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).
- Publication reference
- NGA-NBS-FTS
- Catalog record
- Catalog 84
"Imports by BEC category", NBS, Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics Q3 2024 - Q1 2026 (7 quarterly vintages), ref. NGA-NBS-FTS. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-ft-imports-by-bec-nga. Primary source: https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/180/download/1354/Annual_Abstract_2023.pdf.
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Source: NBS. Source publication: Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics Q3 2024 - Q1 2026 (7 quarterly vintages). Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Catalogued by Prism; Q1 2026.