The CBN financial statement data spans Nigerian monetary history from independence in 1960. The dramatic growth in external reserves from the 1970s reflects Nigeria's oil boom era. Annual surplus and income data provide a window into decades of central bank policy and performance.
Date Range Filter
Nigeria's external reserves and CBN total assets over five decades — the long-run growth of the central bank's balance sheet before the more detailed modern records begin in 2005.
The CBN's yearly operating result. Every year on record here (1960–2012) was a surplus — the bank earned more than it spent — so there are no deficit bars in this window; the red colour is retained so any future deficit would stand out. The figures span four orders of magnitude (from about ₦10m in 1972 to ₦100bn in 2012), so the chart defaults to a log scale to keep the early decades visible. Switch to Linear to see true relative size.