Report Projects Nigeria’s Population To Cross 237 Million By 2025

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The latest United Nations data as estimated by Worldometer has projected that Nigeria will have a population of 237,527,782 by 2025.

According to the report, the forecast will be an increase from 235,072,214 recorded in December 2024.

The statistics showed that between 2023 and 2024, the country’s population increased by 4,796,533.

This is as the U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday, the world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024.

This is a slight slowdown from the 75 million increase witnessed in 2023.

Nigerian population 2025
Worldometer’s report said Nigeria’s population is equivalent to 2.85% of the total world population and the country ranks number six in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.

The data places the most populated cities to be Lagos with 15,388,000 people, Kano 4,910,000, Ibadan 3,649,000, Abuja 2,690,000 and Port Harcourt 2,120,000. 53.9 % of the population is urban (125,447,884 people in 2024).

The population density in Nigeria is 255 per Km2 (662 people per mi2) and the total land area is 910,770 Km2 (351,650 sq. miles), the report said.

“The median age in Nigeria is 17.9 years while the life expectancy at birth for both sexes is 54.6 years.

“Females have a life expectancy of 54.9 years at birth while that of males is
54.3 years,” the report said.

The data projected the world population to reach 8.09 billion people on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.

Credit: CHANNELS TV

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