---
id: "ng_bvn"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons", "finances"]
country: ["NG"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ng_bvn"
---

# Nigerian Bank Verification Number (BVN) (`ng_bvn`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Bank Verification Number, a biometric identifier of bank customers in Nigeria introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2014 and run with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS). One person has one BVN across all banks. It has 11 digits. No check-digit rule is published, and it has the same shape as the National Identification Number (NIN).

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons), Finances and banking (finances)
- Countries: Nigeria (NG)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{11}$
```

## Examples

- `22158306471` — Synthetic value in the documented format
- `22390417582` — Synthetic value in the documented format
- `2215830647A` (invalid example) — Letters are not allowed

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Verification_Number>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ng_bvn.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/NG/persons/ng_bvn.yaml>