Distillers Niger
A one-page guide to Niger for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Niamey
- Official languages
- Hausa (official and national under the 2025 transitional charter), French and English as working languages
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Time zone
- UTC+1
- Area
- 1,267,000 km²
People
- Population
- 27.9 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 3.2% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 18.4%
- Aged under 15
- 46.2%
- Aged 65 and over
- 2.6%
- Life expectancy
- 61.4 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$21.6 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$775 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 7.0% (2025)
- Inflation
- -4.5% (2025)
Climate
Over 80% of the land is Sahara desert or semi-desert; the south is savanna with a tropical climate along the Niger River. Hot-season temperatures in Tillaberi regularly exceed 40 C. Droughts and desertification are recurring; rainy-season timing not given in the source.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 (Penal Code Article 302, per Wikipedia)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 0.13 litres of pure alcohol (2022-2024 average (WHO estimate for 2024))
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); World Bank indicators (population, area, GDP, GDP per capita, growth, inflation); WHO Global Health Observatory, indicator SA_0000001688; UN Comtrade public API (HS 2208); Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Wikipedia: Niger. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.