Federal finance and statistics / National Bureau of Statistics

Cost of Healthy Diet August 2024

Key Highlights The Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) is the least expensive combination of locally available items that meets globally consistent food-based dietary guidelines. It is used as a measure of physical and economic access to healthy diets. This is a lower bound (or floor) of the cost per adult per day excluding the cost of transportation and meal preparation. The National average Cost of a Healthy Diet was N1,255 in August 2024. This shows a decline of 0.8% when compared to the amount recorded in the previous month (July 2024, was N1,265). In August 2024, the average CoHD was highest in…