A public good
A clear view of what everyday life costs in Nigeria.
PriceMap Nigeria follows the price of everyday essentials in markets across the country, week by week, and publishes it in the open for anyone to read, question, and build on.
The live weekly tracker is coming soon. Today you can explore a working preview.
The problem
The price of a thing changes with the market, and the week.
A crate of eggs carries one price in Onitsha and another in Kano, and both move by the week. Traders hold these figures in their heads. Households carry them home in memory. National averages gather them slowly and arrive weeks later, smoothed into a single line.
The people who feel each shift most keenly are the ones budgeting to the last naira. A clear, current view of prices would let them plan with the confidence of the trader who sets them.
Why it matters
Clear prices belong to everyone.
When a price is visible, a family can plan, a claim can be tested, and a reporter or researcher can build on solid ground. Support reaches the places where the pressure is real. Information this fundamental belongs in the open, within reach of anyone who looks for it.
So we gather these prices with care and publish each one in full, open to anyone who wants to use them.
How we go about it
Simple, local, and open.
Local reporters
A trained reporter in each city, often a student, visits the same markets every week, so each figure stays comparable and current.
A fixed basket
The everyday essentials a household buys, measured in defined units, so a price today reads the same as a price last month.
Open by default
Every observation is published as open data, ready for anyone to download, read, and use in their own work.
Coming soon
The live weekly tracker is on its way.
What you can explore today is a working preview, built on a demonstration dataset. Real weekly prices from markets across Nigeria arrive soon. Leave your email, and we will write to you the moment it goes live.
We are putting the finishing touches to it now.