Nigeria is not the wealthiest country in Africa, not even close. They have the highest GDP just because they have twice the population of the second most populo

Nigeria is not the wealthiest country in Africa, not even close. They have the highest GDP just because they have twice the population of the second most populous country in Africa. If you look at GDP per capita, they're barely scraping the top 20 of Africa [1] which, as you can expect, is not very high. It's growing, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_G...