Protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Nigeria
Nigeria: Protecting investors, shareholder suits index was 5 in 2012. ▬ Flat
Protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Nigeria, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
Nigeria recorded 5 for protecting investors, shareholder suits index in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
Nigeria ranks 20th of 51 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 2010s | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Nigeria
- 20 Central African Republic 5 compare
- 20 Comoros, Union of the 5 compare
- 20 Egypt 5 compare
- 20 Eritrea, The State of 5 compare
- 20 Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of 5 compare
- 20 Gambia, The 5 compare
- 20 Guinea-Bissau 5 compare
- 20 Malawi 5 compare
- 20 Seychelles 5 compare
- 20 Uganda 5 compare
More private sector data for Nigeria
- Merchandise trade 33.3% (2025)
- Food imports 11.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 46.0% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 41.45 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 6.0% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 3.5% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 55.47 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 233.52 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1907 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 4.03 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Nigeria?
- Protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Nigeria was 5 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest protecting investors, shareholder suits index recorded in Nigeria?
- The highest recorded value was 5 in 2005.
- What is the lowest protecting investors, shareholder suits index recorded in Nigeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 5 in 2005.
- How does Nigeria rank for protecting investors, shareholder suits index?
- Nigeria ranks 20th out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is protecting investors, shareholder suits index rising or falling in Nigeria?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Nigeria data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Protecting investors, shareholder suits index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Doing Business measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors’ misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. The indicators distinguish 3 dimensions of investor protection: transparency of transactions (extent of disclosure index), liability for self-dealing (extent of director liability index) and shareholders’ ability to sue officers and directors for misconduct (ease of shareholder suits index). The data come from a survey of corporate lawyers and are based on company laws, court rules of evidence and securities regulations. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.