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Nigeria has the largest Christian population in Africa according to Pew Research Center and it has the sixth largest Christian population in the world although the Christians in Nigeria are roughly about 40%-49.3% of the country's population. [72] [73] [74] According to a 2011 Pew report, over 80 million Nigerians are Christians.
The Nigeria women's national football team, [a] nicknamed the Super Falcons, represents Nigeria in international women's football and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The team is Africa 's most successful international women's football team, having won a record eleven Women's Africa Cup of Nations titles; [ 3 ] their most ...
As of 2020, the Nigerian women's national team is ranked 38th according to FIFA's world ranking chart. Mercy Akide, a striker who played on the 1999 women's national team, is considered the most famous name in African women's football. Her spectacular playing in the 1999 Women's World Cup won her a college scholarship to a school in Tennessee ...
Qualification for the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations began on the week of 20–26 September 2023 and concluded on the week of 29 November – 5 December the same year. Its draw was held at the Mohammed VI Football Academy in Salé , Morocco on 6 July 2023 at 18:00 CET ( UTC+1 ).
The FIFA Women's World Ranking is a ranking system for women's national teams in association football (commonly known as football or soccer) published by the international governing body FIFA. As of August 2024, the United States is ranked #1. The rankings were introduced in 2003, [2] with the first rankings published on 16 July of that year.
Members of the Pakistan women's cricket team (in green) after a match against England at the 2009 World Cup. In the ICC Women's Rankings, two of the top ten teams (Pakistan and Bangladesh) are from Muslim-majority countries, [19] and Bangladesh hosted the 2014 Women's World Twenty20 (one of cricket's two world championships). [20]
By 2020, it accounted for an estimated 46.18% of the Nigerian population, two-thirds of which are Protestant. [2] According to the Pew Research Center, in 2011, Nigeria had the largest Christian population of any country in Africa, with more than 80 million people in Nigeria belonging to various denominations. [3]
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.