Nigeria’s Population Projected to Reach 237.5 million by 2025

According to the report, the country’s population will grow 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 US 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.

Worldometer’s report said Nigeria’s population is equivalent to 2.85 per cent 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 at 4,910,000, Ibadan at 3,649,000, Abuja at 2,690,000 and Port Harcourt at 2,120,000, with 53.9 per cent of the population in the urban region at 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.

Recall that Nigeria alongside seven other nations will push the world population to 9.7 billion in 2050 before reaching a peak of around 10.4 billion in the 2080s to 2100.

According to the United Nations, more than half of the projected increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania.