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Nigeria

237,527,782

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+4.85M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+87.9%from 126.38M
Life expectancy54.6 years2024
Fertility rate4.38births per woman · 2024
Urban population63.8%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Nigeria is shaped by age.

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

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1440.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6456.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.1%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 rate32.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate11.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+20.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-15.26Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Nigeria look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 359.19M in 2050—54.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024232.68M
  2. 2050359.19M
  3. 2100476.75M
Median age in 205023.9years
Births in 20508.08Mduring the year
Deaths in 20503.77Mduring the year
Life expectancy58.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196045.05M
  2. 197055.89M
  3. 198073.76M
  4. 199097.12M
  5. 2000126.38M
  6. 2010166.64M
  7. 2020214M
  8. 2025237.53M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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