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Nigeria's GNI per capita ($1,360, Atlas method, 2025) is absent from the africa-gni-per-capita collection and was queried directly from https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/NGA\/indicator\/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD?format=json on 2026-08-21, the same figure and source already used in this desk's 17 August sa-chart-wealth-gap piece. Five countries, South Africa, Tunisia, Botswana, Cameroon and Mali, were absent from this desk's africa-internet-penetration collection and were backfilled the same way, queried directly from https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/\/indicator\/IT.NET.USER.ZS?format=json on 2026-08-21: South Africa 78.36%, Tunisia 76.5%, Botswana 57.46%, Cameroon 46.26%, Mali 36.8%, all 2024 values, the most recent year available for any country in this panel. above_nigeria_gni and above_nigeria_internet flag rows where a no_chart country's own value exceeds Nigeria's; with the backfill complete, Nigeria is confirmably the poorest and least-connected of the four charted markets by both measures, and every row in this dataset now carries a value for both indicators.","unit":"usd_and_pct","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. 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