{"id":11362,"date":"2014-04-07T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11362"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:08:43","slug":"nigeria-overtakes-south-africa-as-africas-largest-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11362","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria overtakes South Africa as Africa\u2019s largest economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nigeria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11363\" alt=\"nigeria\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nigeria.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa&#8217;s largest economy after a rebasing calculation almost doubled its gross domestic product (GDP) to more than five hundred billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>That compares with South Africa&#8217;s GDP of $370.3bn at the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian GDP now includes previously uncounted industries like telecoms, information technology, music, online sales, airlines, and film <a style=\"text-decoration:none; color: #333;\" href=\"http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product\/soma\/\">http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product\/soma\/<\/a> production.<\/p>\n<p>Most governments overhaul GDP calculations every few years to reflect changes in output, but Nigeria had not done so since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s most populous country with 170 million people, has been growing as an investment destination owing to the size of its consumer market and growing capital markets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa&#8217;s largest economy after a rebasing calculation almost doubled its gross domestic product (GDP) to more than five hundred billion dollars. That compares with South Africa&#8217;s GDP of $370.3bn at the end of 2013. Nigerian GDP now includes previously uncounted industries like telecoms, information technology, music, online sales, airlines, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-11362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}