A total of 45,437,673 Nigerians have never been married in their lives. This is another report by the National Population Commission, and it is based on the 2006 nationwide population and Housing Census recently released.

The same report says828, 056 are separated, 692,910 are divorced while 1,900,402 are widowed.

There are however 48,186,740 married individuals in the country.The study population includes Nigerians who fall within the age of ten and above.

According to the NPC statistical tables, the number of unmarried men is higher than that of the women. While there are 25,969,723 men that are unmarried, their female counterparts are 19,467,950.The number of married men is 22,248,017 as against that of the married women which is 19,467,950.

Women who are separated from their husbands are more than men who are of the same status. Separated women are 495,239 but the number of separated men as given by the NPC is 341,782. There are 225,990 men that are divorced and 473,987 divorcees that are women. The number of widows also supercedes that of the widowers. The widows are 1,693,692 while the widowers whose number is far less than that of the widows are 227,978. There also more married women than men that are married. Married women are 26,312,916 but married men are 22,248,017.

Among the states that make up the federation, Lagos has the highest number of men who have never tied the nuptial knot, with 3,481,452 still single. Kano follows Lagos as the state with the second highest number of unmarried people. It has 2,456,742 unmarried individuals. Rivers is next to Kano with 2, 152,267 unmarried people.

In the same report, the NPC says that there are 28,900,492 households in Nigeria. The commission classifies the households under regular household, institutional household, Institutional household, homeless persons, nomadic household, transient persons and fishing and hunting households. The regular household is that has one of its members as a recognised head and functions as a social unit. There are 28,197,085 of such in the country.

Institutional household are those in which the members have no collective head. They are 382,880. Homeless persons who sleep in public places such as parks and under the bridges are regarded as households and they are 47,674. Homeless households are those who have lost their houses to a disaster or demolition. These are 38,825.

There are 176, 046 nomadic households, 22,932 transient persons households and 35,050 fishing and hunting household. This brings the total number of households to 28,900,492.


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To me the above statistics are unrealiable cum unrealistic,,,,Nigeria is a just a country that is simply like a comedy!! How can a government and its officials continue to make questionable errors in this age and time

People are hungry being single, how would they marry and feed the person with what?
Many of the stupid leaders are messing up the younger ladies and promising them what real men cant afford.
Many cant even afford to live in a small apartment, so how would they be able to take care of a family.
Many has no job.
No hope of tomorrow.
I think the govt has failed all those people.
However, i know some are just plain lazy

But they are not virgins

Any Nigeria-statistical analysis is clearly false. We don't have what is needed to draw an estimate. This is why we can't tell if we are going forward or backward since we achieved democracy (1999). We can't tell our employment rate, death and birth rate (People don't even have Birth certificate). No data's, we clearly don't have records, I remember an African footballer was given an award for playing the highest number of matches for his country, the NFA don't have account of matched Okocha played for his country.

Uselessness!

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But they are not virgins

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But they are not virgins

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spikedcylinder:

As opposed to 140m, so what?

Are U trying to tell me that Nigeria total population is 140Million? I don't believe that,,,,by random statistics,,,quote me,,,Nigeria is btw 180Million to 200Million,,,,

yeswecan:

Any Nigeria-statistical analysis is clearly false. We don't have what is needed to draw an estimate. This is why we can't tell if we are going forward or backward since we achieved democracy (1999). We can't tell our employment rate, death and birth rate (People don't even have Birth certificate). No data's, we clearly don't have records, I[b] remember an African footballer was given an award for playing the highest number of matches for his country, the NFA don't have account of matched Okocha played for his country[/b].

Too shameful to be true.

spikedcylinder:

As at last census, we were about 150 million.

Its so hard for me to accept that number.
The NPC said Lagosians were about 9 or 12 milla, but the UN and google had about 15 to 20 million for Lagos.
I could also remember that almost half of south easterners refused to be counted.

As studies go, this is pretty silly.
Why include Nigerians from ten and above in the sample space? When you count the number of teens and pre-teens that are not marriage ready yet, they'll number in the tens of millions.