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Nigeria: Challenge: Obtaining a SIM card

51.66percent · 2024

The percentage of adult respondents without an ID who report that one limitation that they experience because they lack an ID is the inability to obtain a SIM card. If the minimum age for obtaining an ID is above 15, observations below the minimum age are excluded, total sample. Annual figures for Nigeria from 2024 to 2024.

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YearValue (percent)Note
202451.66

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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World Bank (2026). Challenge: Obtaining a SIM card. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-challenge-obtaining-a-sim-card (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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