December 31, (THEWILL) – Nigeria’s population will reach 237,527,782 by 2025, an increase of 2,465,568 from the 235,072,214 recorded in December 2024, the United Nations projected in the latest population report estimated by Woldometer.
This is as the U.S. Census Bureau estimates released on Monday projected the world population to reach 8.09 billion people by Wednesday, January 1, 2025.
According to the UN report, Nigeria ranks sixth in the list of countries (and dependencies) with a population equivalent to 2.85% of the total world population.
The data recorded 15,388,000 people in Lagos, Kano 4,910,000, Ibadan 3,649,000, Abuja 2,690,000 and Port Harcourt 2,120,000, as cities with the most populated people, stressing that 53.9 % of Nigeria’s population live in the urban areas at 125,447,884 in 2024.
It puts the population density in Nigeria at 255 per Km2 (662 people per mi2) and the total land area at 910,770 Km2 (351,650 sq. miles).
“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.
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