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\"BIG<\/a>Nigeria has “rebased” its gross domestic product (GDP) data, which has pushed it above South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy.<\/p>\n

Nigerian GDP now includes previously uncounted industries like telecoms, information technology, music, online sales, airlines, and film production.<\/p>\n

GDP for 2013 totalled 80.3 trillion naira (\u00a3307.6bn: $509.9bn), the Nigerian statistics office said.<\/p>\n

That compares with South Africa’s GDP of $370.3bn at the end of 2013.<\/p>\n

‘Changes nothing’<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, some economists point out that Nigeria’s economic output is underperforming because at 170 million people, its population is three times larger than South Africa’s.<\/p>\n

On a per-capita basis, South Africa’s GDP numbers are three times larger than Nigeria’s.<\/p>\n

And Nigerian financial analyst Bismarck Rewane called the revisions “a vanity”.<\/p>\n

He added: “The Nigerian population is not better off tomorrow because of that announcement. It doesn’t put more money in the bank, more food in their stomach. It changes nothing.”<\/p>\n

Rebasing is carried out so that a nation’s GDP statistics give the most up-to-date picture of an economy as possible.<\/p>\n

Most countries do it at least every three years or so, but Nigeria had not updated the components in its GDP base year since 1990.<\/p>\n

Then, the country had one telecoms operator with around 300,000 phone lines. Now it has a whole mobile phone industry with tens of millions of subscribers.<\/p>\n

Likewise, 24 years ago there was only one airline, and now there are many.<\/p>\n

International aid donors are keen for more African countries to undertake this process regularly because it enables them to make better decisions when it comes to aid.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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