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NER · Sub-Saharan Africa

Niger

27,917,831

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+885.42K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+142.6%from 11.51M
Life expectancy61.4 years2024
Fertility rate5.93births per woman · 2024
Urban population18.4%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Niger is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1446.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6451.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate41.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+32.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-7.7Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Niger look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 52.51M in 2050—94.3% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202427.03M
  2. 205052.51M
  3. 210090.82M
Median age in 205021.2years
Births in 20501.39Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050330.52Kduring the year
Life expectancy66.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19603.51M
  2. 19704.65M
  3. 19806.14M
  4. 19908.29M
  5. 200011.51M
  6. 201016.55M
  7. 202023.72M
  8. 202527.92M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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