Nigerian National Identification Number (NIN)
ID ng_nin
DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft
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National Identification Number, the 11-digit number that the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) gives to a Nigerian citizen or legal resident after enrolment in the national identity database. It is printed without separators on the NIN slip and the national ID card. No check-digit rule is published. It has the same shape as the Bank Verification Number (BVN).
- Categories
- Personally identifiable information, Person related
- Countries
- Nigeria
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^\d{11}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 13478900989 | Format example from the English Wikipedia article on national identification numbers |
| 40217583906 | Synthetic value in the documented format |
| 4021758390 invalid | Ten digits instead of eleven |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identification_number
- doc: https://ncc.gov.ng/node/736
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ng_nin - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/NG/persons/ng_nin.yamlon GitHub