importance

• Regional importance:

  • Largest population in all of Africa
  • Home to over 180 million people
• National importance:

  • Richest nation in Africa due to high exports of oil
  • Part of OPEC - set the price for oil
• Global importance:

  • Part of M.I.N.T countries (Mexico, India, Nigeria, Turkey) - Predicted to overtake HICs GDP (e.g. France & Italy) in the future