A FastAPI backend hosted on Render aggregates and serves the underlying Supabase data through 12 purpose-built REST endpoints. No authentication, no API key, GET requests only, CORS fully open. Interactive Swagger documentation with live request testing is available at /docs on the base URL above. Machine-readable docs for AI agents/LLMs: /llms.txt. Live API and database health: status page.
Endpoints
Latest single value for all five headline indicators — GDP, Inflation, Exchange Rate, MPR, FX Reserves. Ideal for KPI dashboards.
Try it →Quarterly real GDP growth rate (%) and annual nominal GDP in USD billions. Optional start and end date params.
Try it →Monthly headline, food, and core inflation rates. Optional date range params. Source: NBS CPI Report.
Try it →Monthly average NGN/USD official rate, capturing the full impact of the June 2023 FX unification reform.
Try it →CBN Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at each MPC decision date. Rose from 11.5% to 27.5% between 2022 and 2024.
Try it →Monthly gross, liquid and blocked foreign exchange reserves plus block percentage. CBN data 2020–2026.
Try it →Currency in circulation (NGN billions) — full history from 2002 to 2024. Source: CBN Statistical Bulletin.
Try it →NFEM daily rates — closing, highest, lowest and weighted average. December 2024 to April 2026.
Try it →Buying, central and selling rates for 11 currencies (USD, GBP, EUR, CNY, CHF, ZAR, AED, SAR, SDR, CFA, WAUA). AED coverage is Jan–Apr 2026 only; all others span 2020–2026. Optional ?currency= filter.
Real GDP by sector — agriculture, industry, services, manufacturing, telecoms, construction and trade. NBS data.
Try it →CBN balance sheet — total assets, liabilities, gold and currency issued. 2005 to 2023.
Try it →Pearson correlation between inflation and exchange rate, confirming the June 2023 FX reform as the primary driver of the 2023–2024 inflation surge.
Try it →Use Cases
For Researchers
Download complete time series for econometric modelling. All data is deduplicated, date-normalised to ISO 8601, and sourced from primary CBN, NBS and World Bank publications.
For Developers
Integrate Nigerian economic data into your own applications with zero authentication. CORS is fully open and all responses are standard JSON arrays.
For Students
Use the data for dissertations, final year projects and academic analysis in economics, data science, finance or computer science. Free and openly accessible.
AI Agent Access
A standalone Node.js MCP server in the repository at /mcp-server exposes all 12 endpoints above as read-only tools for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible clients — so an AI agent can query Nigeria's GDP, inflation, exchange rate, FX reserves and CBN balance-sheet data directly in conversation, with no API key required. Setup instructions and the client config snippet are in mcp-server/README.md in the source repository.