28 Sectors Suffer As Nigeria’s Economy Decline By N63bn

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has observed that the recent decline in the nation’s economy was caused by the poor economic activities witnessed last year.

NBS stated this while highlighting the figures recorded in the nation’s economic sector in Q2 2022, Naija News understands.

Discharging its duty as an agency responsible for collecting, compiling, analyzing, interpreting, publishing and disseminating statistical information relating to the socio-economic life and conditions of the people of Nigeria, NBS said at least twenty-eight sectors of the economy declined in the second quarter of 2022.

This according to NBS is as real Gross Domestic Product shrunk by N63.49bn quarter-on-quarter.

The statistics revealed that while real GDP grew by 3.54 per cent year-on-year in Q2 2022, it declined by 0.37 per cent from the N17.35tn that was recorded in the first quarter of 2021 to N17.29tn in Q2, 2022.

The analysis of real GDP data revealed that only 18 of the 46 NBS-captured economic activity sectors experienced growth in the quarter under review.

In the agriculture sector, two sub-sectors witnessed an increase and the other two recorded a decline.

Crop production according to the stats grew from N3.39tn to N3.59tn; livestock declined from N318.49bn to N282.02bn; forestry grew from N44.14bn to N51.28bn; while fishing declined from N125.46bn to N88.3bn.

Records From Other Sectors Including Minning, Oil Refining, Electricity, Chemical and Pharmaceutical

NBS revealed in its reports that the mining and quarrying sector, crude petroleum and natural gas witnessed a decline from N1.15tn to N1.09tn.

While coal mining grew from N1.61bn to N4.79bn; metal ores declined from N4.87bn to N1.26bn, and quarrying of other minerals grew from N363.29m to N25.51bn.

Oil refining grew from N1.66bn to N2.82bn; cement declined from N188.81bn to N143.74bn; food, beverage and tobacco declined from N875.94bn to N760.08bn; textile, apparel, and footwear declined from N342.48bn to N283.34bn; wood and wood products declined from N53.81bn to N44.41bn; whereas pulp, paper, and paper products declined from N13.38bn to N9.70bn.

Chemical and pharmaceutical products according to NBS grew from N42.75bn to N47.37bn; non-metallic products declined from N63.52bn to N49.24bn; plastic and rubber products declined from N60.12bn to N53.01bn; electrical and electronics increased from N839.34m to N921.50m; basic metal, iron and steel declined from N39.93bn to N37.31bn; motor vehicles and assembly declined from N9.53bn to N7.63bn, and other manufacturing declined from N76.07bn to N55.55bn

The electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply sector grew from N32.72bn to N118.79bn. The water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation sector grew from N39.06bn to N61.12bn. Construction declined from N725.99bn to N554.11bn. The trade sector grew from N2.79tn to N2.91tn.

Accommodation and food services also recorded a decline from N173.41bn to N68.17bn. Under the transportation and storage sector, road transport grew from N151.97bn to N293.85bn; rail transport and pipelines declined from N40.96m to 19.92m; water transport increased from N802.77m to N1.04bn; air transport declined from N25.26bn to N9.69bn; transport services grew from N7.11bn to N11.14bn; and post and courier services declined from N6.26bn to N2.42bn.

Also, the economy, telecommunications and information services under the information and communication sector grew from N2.25tn to N2.59tn; publishing declined from N5.45bn to N4.66bn; motion pictures, sound recording and music production declined from N229.67bn to N157.57bn; and broadcasting grew from N330.47bn to N433.43bn.

Unfortunately, the arts, entertainment and recreation sector recorded a decline from N35.69bn to N51.85bn. In the financial and insurance sector, the financial institutions’ subsector declined and insurance declined from N85.11bn to N80.18bn.

The real estate sector was one of the sectors that shrunk, declining from N927.32bn to N920.49bn. The professional, scientific and technical services sector fell from N560.47bn to N525.94bn; administrative and support services grew from N3.39bn to N3.54bn; public administration also grew from N283.59bn to N375.59bn, but education fell from N333.06bn to N231.85bn.

While the other services sector declined from N702.74bn to N473.72bn, the human health and social services sector increased from N126.01bn to N131.28bn.

From the statistic, Naija News observed that the year has been a tough year for the manufacturing sector with inflation and foreign exchange scarcity negatively impacting growth.