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Total population by state Demographics development according to the United Nations. Nigeria's population has been increasing rapidly for at least the last 5 decades due to very high birth rates, quadrupling its population during this time.
The replacement fertility rate is 2.1 births per female for most developed countries (in the United Kingdom, for example), but can be as high as 3.5 in undeveloped countries because of higher mortality rates, especially child mortality. [11]
Map of Nigerian states by population density The following table presents a listing of Nigeria 's 36 states ranked in order of their total population based on the 2006 Census figures, [ 1 ] as well as their 2019 projected populations, which were published by the National Bureau of Statistics .
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of births. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.
It is expressed as number of births per 1,000 population. The article lists 233 countries and territories in crude birth rate. The first list is provided by Population Reference Bureau. [1] The second list is based on CIA World Factbook estimates for the year 2023. [2] Dependent territories and not fully recognized states might not be ranked.
The first census in what is now Nigeria was the 1866 census of the British-controlled Lagos Colony.Beginning in 1871, censuses were taken in Lagos Colony every 10 years (1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901), following British tradition of decennial censuses.
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [1] This article includes a table of countries and subnational areas by annual population growth rate.
This is a list of countries showing past fertility rate, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. The fertility rate equals the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.