About ArketData
ArketData exists to answer one question reliably: what does food actually cost in Nigeria right now?
The problem
Food is the largest line in most Nigerian household budgets, and prices move fast. Yet finding out what a bag of rice costs this week — let alone which market sells it cheapest — usually means asking around or going to look. Official statistics arrive late and aggregate away the market-level detail that actually determines where you shop.
What we do
We publish retail prices by commodity, market and state — with the unit, the survey date and the number of markets behind every figure. Alongside that, a community of shoppers asks and answers questions about local prices, and can report prices they have seen themselves.
Those two sources are always kept visibly separate: prices we record ourselves, and prices contributed by members, which are clearly labelled unverified.
Who it's for
- Shoppers and households deciding where and when to buy.
- Traders and small businesses pricing stock and tracking input costs.
- Researchers, journalists and NGOs who need market-level price series.
Using our data
Price data is published under CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution to ArketData. Please include the unit and observation date with any figure you quote.
For bulk access, historical series or API integration, get in touch at data@arketdata.com.