🇳🇬Nigeria

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Population

237.5M

2.1%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

4.38

births/woman

Life Expectancy

54.6y

GDP / capita

$1.2K

Pop. Growth

2.06%

Net Migration

-15.3K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Nigeria by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇧🇯Benin404.5K(32.0%)

+39%

🇬🇭Ghana255.5K(20.2%)

+39%

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Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male120.2MTotal 237.5M117.4MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

15.7

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Religious composition (2020)

Share of population by religion

Muslim50.0%

Source: Pew Research / census

Where the Nigeria diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Nigeria who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇸United States565.1K(27.0%)

+155%

🇬🇧United Kingdom324K(15.5%)

+71%

🇳🇪Niger199.7K(9.5%)

10×

🇨🇲Cameroon188.3K(9.0%)

+128%

🇮🇹Italy112.8K(5.4%)

+188%

🇨🇦Canada112.1K(5.4%)

+297%

🇧🇯Benin92.4K(4.4%)

+37%

🇬🇭Ghana90.1K(4.3%)

+58%

🇨🇮Cote d'Ivoire60.9K(2.9%)

+32%

🇸🇩Sudan35.6K(1.7%)

+120%

🇪🇸Spain33.8K(1.6%)

−8%

🇹🇬Togo32.5K(1.6%)

+11%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024