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There are 100,000 people from the United States, [14] 75,000 are from Lebanon, [15] 60,000 are from China [16] and 16,000 are from the United Kingdom. [17] Nigeria has a young population overall, with 42.54% of inhabitants between the ages of 0–14. [1] [18] There is also a very high dependency ratio at 88.2 dependents per 100 non-dependents. [1]
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 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.
[2] [3] Total population as of 2024 is about 1.5 billion, [4] with a growth rate of about 100 million every three years. The total fertility rate (births per woman) for Africa is 4.1 as of 2024, the highest in the world. [5] The most populous African country is Nigeria with over 206 million inhabitants as of 2020 and a growth rate of 2.6% p.a. [6]
Birth rate should not be confused with the generally more useful total fertility rate, which adjusts figures to account for how many females of reproductive age there are. Data from Population Reference Bureau's 2020 World Population Data Sheet .
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The birth rate is 35.2-births/1,000 population and the death rate is 9.6 deaths/1,000 population as of 2017, while the total fertility rate is 5.07 children born/woman. [229] Nigeria's population increased by 57 million from 1990 to 2008, a 60% growth rate in less than two decades. [ 230 ]