Search engines by country · Africa
Which search engines do people use in Nigeria?
In StatCounter's October 2026 figures for Nigeria (all platforms), Google has 98.79% of search engine referrals, bing 0.99% and Yahoo! 0.11%. Referrals are visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a results page, not searches. ChatGPT has the highest AI chatbot share, 56.15%. This site documents 1 engine for Nigeria. StatCounter Global Stats
Share figures for October 2026 · data checked November 10, 2026
- #1 search engine
- GoogleStatCounter's label, October 2026
- Its share of search engine referrals
- 98.79% StatCounter Global StatsVisits from results pages to sites running StatCounter's code, all platforms
- Engines documented for Nigeria
- 1: Meta AI
- Top AI chatbot
- ChatGPT, 56.15% StatCounter Global StatsStatCounter's product name
- Population
- 237,527,7822025, World Bank
- Rich results that name Nigeria
- None on record
Which search engines do people use in Nigeria?
StatCounter lists 7 search engine rows for Nigeria for October 2026, all platforms. Each figure is that row's share of search engine referrals: the visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a search engine's results page. It does not count searches. StatCounter Global Stats
Matching: StatCounter's one “Yahoo!” row is counted as Yahoo Search here (as Yahoo! JAPAN Search in Japan; its worldwide row covers both). YANDEX is Yandex Search; where StatCounter also lists YANDEX RU, the two rows are added together.
Source: StatCounter Global Stats, search engine market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Rankings across countries on this site use only places of 1 million people or more where StatCounter lists at least three search engines; Nigeria is one of them.
Which AI chatbots do people use in Nigeria?
StatCounter lists 5 AI chatbot rows for Nigeria for October 2026, under its own product names. StatCounter does not describe how it measures AI chatbot share on the pages read, so no method is claimed here. Its product names are broader or narrower than the engine profiles on this site, so each linked name opens the engine profile it is matched to. StatCounter Global Stats
- ChatGPT56.15%
- Google Gemini27.74%
- Perplexity9.49%
- Claude4.55%
- Microsoft Copilot2.07%
Source: StatCounter Global Stats, AI chatbot market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Which engines are documented for Nigeria?
The engine profiles on this site document 1 engine for Nigeria: its recorded markets include Nigeria. Each profile lists its sources.
Meta AIAI answer engine
Rich result types: none on record
StatCounter AI chatbot figure here: none reported
26 more engines are recorded with no country limit: their pages do not limit them to listed countries. They are on the engines page.
Rich resultsThe engine profiles record no rich result whose documentation names Nigeria in its list of places. Rich results documented for whole regions, or with no limit, are on each engine's page.
How do I test a page for Nigeria?
Inject the World
Test a page for Nigeria
Check the structured data on a page against what the engines profiled on this site document, with Nigeria set as the market.
Sources
Market share
- StatCounter Global Stats: search engine market share, Nigeria, October 2026, all platforms (desktop, mobile, tablet and console), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
- StatCounter Global Stats: AI chatbot market share, Nigeria, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Population
World Bank, indicator SP.POP.TOTL, CC BY 4.0, 2025. It also decides which places are ranked (1 million people or more).
Names
Nigeria is the English name in CLDR 47.0, the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository. The country list used here is UN M49, plus Taiwan from ISO 3166-1. ISO 3166-1 code: NG.