Federal finance and statistics / National Bureau of Statistics

Cost of Healthy Diet March 2024

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 N982 in March 2024. This is 4.7% higher than the amount recorded in the previous month (February 2024, was N938). In March 2024, the average CoHD was highest in the South West at N1,198 p…