Nigeria · Statistic
Domestic debt outstanding, state governments
Public Finance · Source: DMO via NBS · quarterly
International comparability — CSA: Economic · GFSM 2014 (IMF)Domestic debt outstanding by state, 2018-2022, NGN billion. Source: NBS Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023, Table 417. Covers 36 states plus the Federal Capital Territory, with a published national total. Magnitude cross-checked against DMO: Lagos 2022 NGN807.21bn, national total NGN5,337.75bn.
Observations
836
2018 – Q4 2025
Coverage
36 states + FCT
state
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Figures are in nominal naira — the amounts as reported for each period, not adjusted for inflation. Over a multi-year span, part of any increase reflects rising prices rather than real growth.
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Every published value — 22 periods across 36 states + FCT. The most recent periods are shown by default; expand the table for the full history, or use the downloads above for everything.
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| Period | Abia | Adamawa | Akwa Ibom | Anambra | Bauchi | Bayelsa | Benue | Borno | Cross River | Delta | Ebonyi | Edo | Ekiti | Enugu | Federal Capital Territory | Gombe | Imo | Jigawa | Kaduna | Kano | Katsina | Kebbi | Kogi | Kwara | Lagos | Nasarawa | Niger | Ogun | Ondo | Osun | Oyo | Plateau | Rivers | Sokoto | Taraba | Yobe | Zamfara | Nigeriatotal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | 66.08 | 81.23 | 122.19 | 28.68 | 143.95 | 82.72 | 122.58 | 27.92 | 118.13 | 199.58 | 18.11 | 113 | 53.53 | 119.28 | 63.56 | 89.24 | 126.14 | 1.33 | 25.76 | 60.65 | 25.68 | 15.22 | 41.59 | 59.08 | 900.19 | 26.6 | 140.74 | 211.86 | 12.88 | 84.27 | 89.91 | 94.09 | 364.39 | 55.41 | 81.39 | 42.06 | 59.04 | 3,968.06 |
| Q1 2025 | 48.67 | 78.65 | 118.21 | 28.2 | 142.4 | 73.53 | 129.82 | 25.09 | 115.12 | 204.72 | 17.1 | 82.4 | 51.43 | 188.42 | 61.11 | 83.66 | 122.09 | 1.06 | 25.01 | 58.29 | 23.26 | 15.1 | 20.39 | 60.1 | 874.04 | 24.73 | 143.75 | 190.14 | 11.76 | 83.32 | 86.83 | 83.39 | 364.39 | 52.67 | 82.93 | 39.62 | 57.71 | 3,869.14 |
| Q2 2025 | 48.58 | 75.35 | 105.82 | 28.07 | 143.62 | 65.99 | 133.53 | 22.28 | 147.28 | 204.67 | 15.77 | 80.32 | 49.98 | 180.49 | 71.04 | 76.92 | 97.98 | 0.85 | 24.09 | 56.89 | 20.19 | 14.97 | 18.79 | 57.32 | 1,041.36 | 23.94 | 141.52 | 162.92 | 10.65 | 82.34 | 83.16 | 74.41 | 364.39 | 49.63 | 93.93 | 38.01 | 56.88 | 3,963.93 |
| Q3 2025 | 48.5 | 74.78 | 95.51 | 26.67 | 158.2 | 58.73 | 107.25 | 47.23 | 141.94 | 247.17 | 14.64 | 76.13 | 48.65 | 194.72 | 78.93 | 75.69 | 90.51 | 1.6 | 23.13 | 55.28 | 17.02 | 14.84 | 14.31 | 62.56 | 1,045.81 | 22.41 | 143.5 | 168.09 | 9.53 | 81.33 | 80.28 | 67.09 | 381.21 | 47.08 | 89.74 | 36.38 | 56.48 | 4,002.9 |
| Q4 2025 | 48.41 | 67.03 | 84.85 | 11.55 | 156.05 | 51.38 | 107.23 | 42.64 | 137.36 | 248.83 | 13.48 | 91.18 | 43.94 | 157.6 | 188.86 | 67.2 | 83.75 | 1.6 | 84.65 | 53.75 | 14.11 | 14.71 | 27.95 | 62.99 | 1,219.46 | 26.41 | 142.67 | 227.47 | 8.42 | 80.28 | 77.42 | 67.5 | 378.81 | 47.39 | 85.51 | 81 | 57.04 | 4,360.47 |
Methodology and provenance
Where this data comes from and when Prism last updated it.
Source documents
Last updated 17 August 2026
- Table StateDomestic
State government domestic debt outstanding (₦ billion; DMO Q4'2025 quarterly vintage) · Debt Management Office (State Domestic Debt sheet) — DMO Q4'2025 vintage
Last updated 2 August 2026
- Table 417
Domestic Debt of State Governments Billion 2018 20 · page 524 · Debt management Office
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, Annual Abstract of Statistics 2023, chapter 20 Public Finance. ⚠ **Tier of government matters in this chapter**: it prints four similarly-named naira aggregates that are different entities - the Federation Account gross pool (shared by all three tiers), total federally collected revenue, the Federal Government's share of the Federation Account, and the FIRS Federation-Account tax lines. Every series title names its tier. Where a table prints no multiplier, the unit was established by order-of-magnitude against a known reference and is recorded on the dataset.
Source and citation
This series is catalogued from public source tables. Prism names the table originator and the publication publisher — shown as one line when they are the same organisation. How this data is extracted and checked is set out in the methodology, and the full list of what Prism draws on is on the sources page.
- Originator
- Debt Management Office (DMO)
- Publisher
- National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
- Publication
- Nigerian Domestic & Foreign Debt
- Printed source caption
- Debt Management Office (State Domestic Debt sheet) — DMO Q4'2025 vintage and Debt management Office
- Publication reference
- NGA-NBS-DEBT
- Catalog record
- Catalog 172
"Domestic debt outstanding, state governments", DMO via NBS, Nigerian Domestic & Foreign Debt, ref. NGA-NBS-DEBT. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-pf-state-domestic-debt-nga. Primary source: https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/180/download/1354/Annual_Abstract_2023.pdf.
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Source: DMO via NBS. Source publication: Nigerian Domestic & Foreign Debt. Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Catalogued by Prism; Q4 2025.