The United Nation projects Nigeria’s population to reach 237,527,782 by 2025, up from 235,072,214 in December 2024, according to Worldometer data.

Ten countries hold the largest share of the global population in 2025, shaping economic, political, and development trends ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has launched its flagship publication, the State of World Population Report 2025, highlighting the pressing issue of reproductive agency in a changing world.

Implement Nigeria’s population policy to prevent disaster, CSOs urge Tinubu The implementation of the population policy will ensure Nigeria reverses the trend of insecurity, unemployment, and ...

Nigeria’s population pyramid shows a high dependency ratio of 80 per cent, indicating a surge of young persons dependent on only 20 per cent of the population for support. This trend is an ...

Nigeria, set to become the world’s third most populous country by 2050, is a microcosm of these global challenges. ... Accurate data on population trends, ...

If Nigeria were to make both universal by 2030, as some demographers have suggested, the nation might cut its population boom in half, meaning that in 2100, when Eziaku is 78, the country would ...

Nigeria’s rapid population growth has been described as a key challenge to the national planning and economic development. This was contained in a press statement signed by The Challenge ...

Data sourced from Worldometer’s elaboration of the latest United Nations’ Data (www worldometer.info) on Nigeria’s population between the year 2000 and March 2025 showed that as of March ...

Understanding how population trends are unfolding is critical for achieving a more inclusive, prosperous and sustainable future. 5 ... India, Nigeria and Pakistan. ...

In more than half of the 235 countries and areas that comprise the global population, women are giving birth to fewer than 2.1 children over a lifetime, below the level required for a population ...