Lagos produces ₦41.2 trillion a year — 5.2 times Rivers, the next state down, and more than the bottom twenty states put together. The federation shares revenue evenly. It does not produce evenly.
Thirty-six states and a capital territory, ranked by what they actually produce. The distribution is not a curve — it is a cliff.
Lagos alone accounts for 25.0% of measured national output on the smallest land area of any state.
Ranked 36 of 36. It would take 38 of it to make one Lagos.
Per head is where oil states overtake commercial ones: a small population divided into a large extractive output.
A kano resident's share of output is 9.8 times smaller than a lagos resident's.
Total output, dollars, purchasing power or per head — the ranking changes completely depending on which one you pick, and each answers a different question.
Total output · ₦tn — Total output in trillions of naira, 2021 estimate.
Aggregate output by geopolitical zone. The South produces the majority of it; the North holds the majority of the land and, on most projections, the population.
Remove Lagos from the South West and the zone drops below every southern neighbour — the region's lead is one city's lead, not a regional pattern.
| State | Total rank | Per-head rank | Move | $ per head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LagosSouth West | 1 | 1 | — | $6,614 |
| BayelsaSouth South | 9 | 2 | ▲ 7 | $4,355 |
| ImoSouth East | 4 | 3 | ▲ 1 | $2,996 |
| Akwa IbomSouth South | 3 | 4 | ▼ 1 | $2,962 |
| OndoSouth West | 7 | 5 | ▲ 2 | $2,326 |
| DeltaSouth South | 5 | 6 | ▼ 1 | $2,306 |
| RiversSouth South | 2 | 7 | ▼ 5 | $2,277 |
| Cross RiverSouth South | 14 | 8 | ▲ 6 | $2,255 |
| AbiaSouth East | 18 | 9 | ▲ 9 | $2,048 |
| EdoSouth South | 15 | 10 | ▲ 5 | $2,038 |
| OgunSouth West | 8 | 11 | ▼ 3 | $2,024 |
| AnambraSouth East | 6 | 12 | ▼ 6 | $2,002 |
| KogiNorth Central | 16 | 13 | ▲ 3 | $1,758 |
| NigerNorth Central | 10 | 14 | ▼ 4 | $1,721 |
| EbonyiSouth East | 25 | 15 | ▲ 10 | $1,675 |
| BenueNorth Central | 12 | 16 | ▼ 4 | $1,585 |
| NasarawaNorth Central | 30 | 17 | ▲ 13 | $1,569 |
| EkitiSouth West | 23 | 18 | ▲ 5 | $1,523 |
| TarabaNorth East | 28 | 19 | ▲ 9 | $1,424 |
| GombeNorth East | 27 | 20 | ▲ 7 | $1,360 |
| AdamawaNorth East | 21 | 21 | — | $1,341 |
| SokotoNorth West | 20 | 22 | ▼ 2 | $1,215 |
| KadunaNorth West | 11 | 23 | ▼ 12 | $1,112 |
| OsunSouth West | 24 | 24 | — | $1,030 |
| OyoSouth West | 17 | 25 | ▼ 8 | $980 |
| KwaraNorth Central | 35 | 26 | ▲ 9 | $919 |
| KatsinaNorth West | 19 | 27 | ▼ 8 | $903 |
| KebbiNorth West | 31 | 28 | ▲ 3 | $860 |
| BauchiNorth East | 22 | 29 | ▼ 7 | $840 |
| ZamfaraNorth West | 32 | 30 | ▲ 2 | $807 |
| JigawaNorth West | 26 | 31 | ▼ 5 | $794 |
| PlateauNorth Central | 33 | 32 | ▲ 1 | $771 |
| BornoNorth East | 29 | 33 | ▼ 4 | $698 |
| EnuguSouth East | 34 | 34 | — | $690 |
| YobeNorth East | 36 | 35 | ▲ 1 | $688 |
| KanoNorth West | 13 | 36 | ▼ 23 | $674 |
These are output estimates for 2021 — the value of what happens inside a state's borders. They are not internally generated revenue, and they are not federation-account allocation. A state can host a large economy and collect very little of it: oil output is booked where the barrel is lifted, corporate profit is often booked in Lagos.
Naira, dollar and purchasing-power columns are the same underlying estimate converted three ways. Per-head figures divide output by the 2006 census population, the last count with legal status and a published per-state breakdown; because that count is twenty years old, treat per-head numbers as a ranking device rather than a household figure. Every ranking on this page is computed from the table, so any row can be re-derived.