Population in Nigeria

Nearby in the ranking

3. United States of America 343 million
4. Indonesia 281 million
5. Pakistan 248 million
6. Nigeria 228 million
7. Brazil 211 million
8. Bangladesh 171 million
9. Russia 145 million

More about Nigeria

• Population growth
• Births per woman
• Typical age
• Living in cities
• Human Development Index
• Women’s vs men’s development
• People per household
• People over 65
• Children under 15
• Women’s age at first marriage
• Mothers’ age at first birth
• All figures for Nigeria

About the data

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.

Unit

people

Years

1800–2023

Data as of

2026-09-28

Source

Our World in Data

License

CC BY 4.0

Credit

Our World in Data; HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0