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Population, total — Nigeria

Total mid-year population estimate for Nigeria.

Latest measured value

Success
Latest value
232,679,478
Year
2024
Unit
persons
Last ingestion
2026-05-14T21:04:20.316Z
Source: World Bank Open Data

Definition

Unit
persons
Value type
number
Geography
Nigeria (national)
Time period
1960–present (annual)
License
CC BY 4.0
Last updated
See upstream source page
Source
World Bank Open Data
Dataset
World Bank Population and Migration Indicators — Nigeria
MethodologyWorld Bank Indicator SP.POP.TOTL.

Recent records

YearValueUnitGeography
2024232,679,478personsNigeria
2023227,882,945personsNigeria
2022223,150,896personsNigeria
2021218,529,286personsNigeria
2020213,996,181personsNigeria
2019209,485,641personsNigeria
2018204,938,755personsNigeria
2017200,254,579personsNigeria
2016195,443,700personsNigeria
2015190,671,878personsNigeria

API

This dataset is queryable through the Data.civic.ng API.

curl -s https://data.civic.ng/api/indicators/population-total-nigeria/records