Nigeria Mass Weddings Map

A decade of state-sponsored mass weddings, against the poverty and money behind them

Data by Valyu

Ceremonies

2017–2026 · 10-year window

Couples married

largest single edition: 0

States involved

of 36 states + FCT

Reported spend

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where a cost was published

Multidimensional poverty

1.1%75.4%

no data

Ceremonies · circle area = couples

State government
Hisbah board
Emirate council
Philanthropist
announced only

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Where this comes from

Ceremonies

Nigerian and international news, searched through Valyu.

Population

UNFPA / National Population Commission — Nigeria Subnational Population Statistics (COD-PS), 2022 projection.

dataset

Poverty

Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. Computed from the 2021 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). National headcount: 33.0%.

dataset

Marriage age, electricity, literacy

National Population Commission (Nigeria) and ICF · The DHS Program — Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 2023–24. Fieldwork ran 2023–24. State-level estimates as published by The DHS Program.

dataset

FAAC 2024

FAAC figures are reported, not read from an official machine-readable dataset. Treat them as indicative and follow the source link before citing.

Boundaries

geoBoundaries (GRID3 Nigeria state boundaries), CC BY 4.0.

dataset

A state with no ceremonies means none surfaced in the sources searched — read it as absence of coverage, not proof of absence.

Layers carry the year of their source. The poverty index is the most recent state-level MPI that exists — nobody has published one from the 2023–24 survey yet — so it sits alongside the 2024 survey indicators rather than being passed off as current.