India has overtaken China in the rank of the world's most populous nations, with over 1.46 billion people as of 2025In 2022, the global population reached 8 billion, as population growth rates are ...

According to UN estimates, Nigeria's total population will double from 200 million to more than 401 million by 2050. If the trend isn't stopped, it will exceed 728 million by 2100.

The United Nations-demarcated World Population Day on July 11 prompted a relook at the figure of the number of people in the world, and how each country is faring. The world’s population has now ...

With a population estimated at over 222 million—70% under 30 and a median age of just 18.1 years—Nigeria is uniquely positioned to leverage its human capital for economic growth. Advertisement ...

THE latest report on Nigeria’s spiralling population raises fresh concerns. In it, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs projects Nigeria to ...

The 2006 census pegs Nigeria’s population at 140 million. Today, the United Nations disagrees, estimating Nigeria’s population well above 200 million people, ...

Nigeria’s population structure is potentially an economic asset. The country has the largest population of youth in the world, with a median age of 18.1 years.

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 ...

Nigeria's population is estimated at more than 200 million and the U.N. expects that figure to double by 2050. That would make Nigeria the world's third most populous country, ...

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 ...