Nigeria’s Population Is Now 201 Million – UN

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), reported Nigeria’s population has hit a new high of 201 million!

The current population of Nigeria is 200,030,771 as of Monday, April 29, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates.

Nigeria population is equivalent to 2.6% of the total world population.

Nigeria ranks number 7 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.

The population density in Nigeria is 221 per Km2 (571 people per mi2)

The total land area is 910,770 Km2 (351,650 sq. miles)

51.9 % of the population is urban (104,282,822 people in 2019)

The median age in Nigeria is 17.9 years.

The fertility rate among Nigerian women has dropped from 6.4 in 1969 to 5.3 in 2019; this means an average Nigerian woman gives birth to at least five children.