Nigeria may already be the region's largest economy

Technical difficulties mean that the proposed rebasing and revision of Nigerian GDP data have now been delayed until 2014. Nevertheless, whenever the revised data are released, they are likely to show that the country has overtaken South Africa as the region’s largest economy. And a higher trend rate of growth in Nigeria means that the gap will widen further in the coming years.

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