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

# Nigerian National Identification Number (NIN) (`ng_nin`)

> **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.

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).

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `13478900989` — Format example from the English Wikipedia article on national identification numbers
- `40217583906` — Synthetic value in the documented format
- `4021758390` (invalid example) — Ten digits instead of eleven

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identification_number>
- doc: <https://ncc.gov.ng/node/736>

## Quality

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

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