ICT sector boosts Nigeria’s GDP with 11.18% contribution in Q2 2025 

Nigeria’s Info and Communication Know-how (ICT) sector strengthened its position as a key driver of financial progress within the second quarter of 2025, contributing 11.18% to actual Gross Home Product (GDP), in keeping with contemporary knowledge from the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The sector, which covers Telecommunications and Info Providers, Publishing, Movement Image, Sound Recording and Music Manufacturing, in addition to Broadcasting, recorded a year-on-year actual progress price of 6.61% in Q2.

This marked an enchancment of two.23 share factors over the 4.38% progress recorded in the identical quarter of 2024. On a quarter-on-quarter foundation, the sector’s actual progress was even stronger at 9.58%.

Nominal progress 

In nominal phrases, ICT expanded by 21.39% year-on-year in Q2 2025, greater than doubling the ten.21% progress recorded in the identical quarter of 2024.

Nonetheless, it was 10.25 share factors slower than the expansion tempo seen within the earlier quarter. The sector’s contribution to nominal GDP stood at 10.00%, barely above 9.82% in Q2 2024 however marginally beneath the ten.29% contribution in Q1 2025.

The NBS famous that ICT stays one of many strongest performers throughout the non-oil economic system, serving to to drive total GDP growth.

Non-oil sector 

The non-oil sector grew by 3.64% in actual phrases in Q2 2025, larger than the three.26% recorded a yr earlier and the three.19% posted in Q1 2025.

• Other than ICT, key progress drivers included Agriculture (Crop manufacturing), Actual Property, Monetary Establishments, Commerce, Development, and Electrical energy, Fuel, Steam, and Air Conditioning Provide.
• General, the non-oil sector contributed 95.95% to Nigeria’s actual GDP in Q2 2025, underscoring the economic system’s rising reliance on sectors exterior crude oil.
• Though this share was barely decrease than the 96.49% contribution recorded in Q2 2024, ICT’s rising momentum highlights its rising significance as each a stabilizer and progress catalyst for the Nigerian economic system.

Nigeria’s GDP progress 

Nairametrics earlier reported that Nigeria’s GDP grew by 4.23% year-on-year in actual phrases within the second quarter of 2025, in keeping with the newest figures launched by the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

This marks a stronger efficiency than the three.48% recorded within the corresponding interval of 2024.

The report reveals that combination GDP at fundamental costs stood at N100.73 trillion in nominal phrases, in contrast with N84.48 trillion in Q2 2024, representing a nominal progress of 19.23% year-on-year.

The oil sector drove a lot of the expansion momentum. Common each day crude oil manufacturing rose to 1.68 million barrels per day (mbpd), larger than the 1.41 mbpd recorded in Q2 2024 and 1.62 mbpd in Q1 2025.