Nigeria’s manufacturing sector accounted for 8.05% of actual GDP in 2025, down from 8.24% recorded in 2024.
This was in accordance with the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics’ Nigerian Gross Home Product (GDP) Report This autumn 2025.
The decline in contribution comes regardless of a slight enchancment in annual actual development, underscoring the sector’s weak structural momentum throughout the broader economic system.
The sector includes 13 sub-activities, together with oil refining, cement, meals, drinks and tobacco, textiles, chemical compounds and prescription drugs, primary metals, motor automobiles and different manufacturing segments
Information from the report present that actual GDP development in manufacturing stood at 1.13% year-on-year in This autumn 2025.
This was decrease than the identical quarter of 2024 and likewise decrease than the previous quarter. On a quarter-on-quarter foundation, development was 9.01%.
For the total yr, actual development within the sector was 1.41% in 2025, marginally larger than the 1.20% recorded in 2024. Nevertheless, the modest development was inadequate to forestall a drop in its total share of the economic system.
Additionally, manufacturing contributed 7.40% to GDP in This autumn 2025, decrease than the 7.62% recorded in This autumn 2024 and under the third quarter of 2025.
This signifies that even because the broader economic system expanded by 4.07% in actual phrases in This autumn 2025, manufacturing lagged behind different development drivers.
In nominal phrases, manufacturing grew by 12.96% in 2025, up from 10.84% in 2024. In This autumn 2025, nominal development stood at 5.80% year-on-year, considerably decrease than the 13.14% recorded in This autumn 2024.
Regardless of stronger nominal enlargement, the sector’s share of nominal GDP additionally declined on an annual foundation. Manufacturing contributed 8.46% to nominal GDP in 2025, in comparison with 8.85% in 2024.
In This autumn 2025, its nominal contribution was 8.34%, decrease than the 9.27% recorded within the corresponding quarter of 2024, however barely larger than the 8.06% posted in Q3 2025.
The divergence between nominal and actual efficiency means that value changes could have supported worth development greater than precise will increase in manufacturing volumes.
Nairametrics earlier reported that Nigeria’s economic system grew by 4.07% year-on-year in actual phrases within the fourth quarter (This autumn) of 2025.
