Nigeria’s ‘Great Leap’ Past South Africa

作     者：Simon Schaefer Hannah Edinger 

出 版 物：《ChinAfrica》 (中国与非洲（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第6卷第6期

页      面：34-35页

学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020208[经济学-统计学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 081304[工学-建筑技术科学] 020201[经济学-国民经济学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 080502[工学-材料学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0714[理学-统计学（可授理学、经济学学位）] 

主　　题：Great Leap Nigeria’s Past South Africa 

摘      要：IN a long overdue exercise, the National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria recalculated the country＇s GDE dethroning South Africa as Africa＇s largest economy earlier this year. While the rebasing of economic output is a standard procedure usually done quite regularly by countries, Nigeria has not recalculated its GDP in more than 20 years. With a population of at least three times the size of the incumbent number one economy in Africa Nigeria＇s claim of the economic pole position in Africa did not come as a surprise. Its rise to the top was inevitable and arguably the only surprise may have been that it took the West African giant of 170 million people so long to do so.