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The number of Nigerian immigrants residing in the United States is rapidly growing, expanding from a small 1980 population of 25,000. [1] The 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) estimated that 712,294 residents of the US were of Nigerian ancestry. [ 4 ]
Over 1.2 million people living in Nigeria (0.5% of its total population, or 1 in every 200 people living in Nigeria) are from a continent other than Africa. 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]
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. [2]
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
[5] [6] The strong growth of the African population will happen regardless of the rate of decrease of fertility, because of the high proportion of young people already living today, who are in, or approaching, their fertile years. For example, the UN projects that the population of Nigeria will surpass that of the United States by about 2050. [6]
These are lists of countries by foreign-born population and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants).. According to the United Nations, in 2019, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Russia and France had the largest number of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and Tokelau had the lowest.
Complementing these formal economic links are a large volume of family remittances from the United States's large Nigerian American population. Yet Nigeria's oil resources and importance for regional stability have tended to counteract any strong dependence on the United States, reducing the latter's leverage and necessitating a relationship ...