India has overtaken China in the rank of the world's most populous nations, with over 1.46 billion people as of 2025In 2022, ...

In 2024 alone, Nigeria’s population grew by nearly five million, with projections suggesting it could reach 237.5 million by 2025. Urbanisation is also accelerating, ...

Despite Nigeria’s high-ranking position on the global demographic map, the President said its population censuses had been conducted irregularly and at intervals, longer than the United Nations ...

Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, says that the 2023 population and housing census will involve the use of digital maps, questionnaires and cloud computing.

About 60 percent of a country’s population ought to be productive. Currently, Nigeria’s population stands at 217, 079, 601 according to “Worldometer,” aa at August 25, 2022.

National Population Commission (NPC) has called on relevant strategic partners to join hands with the commission in realising the dream of providing the needed demographic data that will ...

LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria could become the fifth most populous country in the world, teetering on the edge of a demographic disaster unless its stagnant economy rapidly expands to support its ...

With a population of over 222.8m as of November 2023 and home to plentiful natural resources, Nigeria is simultaneously Africa’s largest economy and its most populous country. Since its independence ...