The Director-General of National Population Commission, NPC, Ghaji Bello, has said Nigeria’s population was currently 182 million, with more than half its people under 30 years of age. According to him, this puts a severe strain on a nation, with its slowing economy and declining revenue to provide enough schools and health facilities. Bello, who disclosed this in Abuja, said the latest estimate was based on the population of 140 million recorded in the last census a decade ago, using an annual growth rate of 3.5 percent weighed against other variables such as rising life expectancy and a declining infant mortality rate.

He said Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, was witnessing a growing youth bulge, with those under 14 years accounting for more than 40 percent of its citizens. According to him, this is happening at a time the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has predicted that the nation’s gross domestic product will shrink 1.7 percent this year, the first full-year contraction in more than two decades. “The implication is that they are assets, they are the future of our country, but they are also liabilities. We need to know how to plan for their transition from youths to the next category. ‘’It has implications for education, health and security, particularly in our environment where you have a lot of unemployment,’’ Bello said. He said plans to hold a census this year were delayed by 2015 elections and a plunge in revenue due to low prices for crude, the country’s main export, and slashed output caused by militant attacks in the Niger Delta. “We’re hopeful the government will soon make a statement for the next exercise,” he said.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/nigerias-population-now-182-million-npc/

Na me be number 1

How did they arrive at the figures without head counts? Incompetent people

Useless governments, and what have you done for the teaming population?

North East ====== 43million



Northwest ======= 60million



NorthCentral ====== 30million


Southwest ========18million



Southeast ========= 20million


SouthSouth =========11million



Culled from Northern Population Council of Nigeria(NPC) 2016

185 million mumu

Nigeria as a country is not more than 100 million people....

With all those under age girls giving birth I won't be surprised if by 2020 we 200 Million.

patriotic9jaboy:
How did they arrive at the figures without head counts? Incompetent people

UN has made this below

29 July 2015 – The world's population is projected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and exceed 11 billion in 2100, with India expected to surpass China as the most populous around seven years from now and Nigeria overtaking the United States to become the world's third largest country around 35 years

Did UN make a head count in advance to know this?

patriotic9jaboy:
How did they arrive at the figures without head counts? Incompetent people

dont mind those people releasing fictitious figures. Anybody that believes Nigeria has a population of more 120m persons can believe his/her mother is a virgin. The same idiots will count their cattle during census.

Ok

mrvitalis:
Nigeria as a country is not more than 100 million people....

i'm with you, i believe we are somewhere between 80-90 million

patriotic9jaboy:
How did they arrive at the figures without head counts? Incompetent people

help me ask them o, especially in a country where we have no records of new births.

I hope its not one of those Political abracadabra again o!

na so...they have already started making plans for the next election

So what are you doing to control this population?what are you doing to improve the economy?All we want is a better Nigeria

SamuelAnyawu:
North East ====== 43million



Northwest ======= 60million



NorthCentral ====== 30million


Southwest ========18million



Southeast ========= 20million


SouthSouth =========11million



Culled from Northern Population Council of Nigeria(NPC) 2016

This cannot be o. Are you sure of these?

Southwest cannot be 18m, I believe Lagos alone is about 15m the rest of the West 10m perhaps. These figures don't make sense jare. Political census perhaps.

182 million and still counting....

And some men's prick go still dey raise anyhow for this recession? ...SMH

SamuelAnyawu:
North East ====== 43million



Northwest ======= 60million



NorthCentral ====== 30million


Southwest ========18million



Southeast ========= 20million


SouthSouth =========11million



Culled from Northern Population Council of Nigeria(NPC) 2016

Looks like you swapped SS with SE.

Wasn't aware the country has a data base.

I'm wondering how they came up with those figures.

Looks like voodoo statistics to me.

Who are they fooling?

I wonder, very funny people lol. Even with the countings over the years, they dont have an accurate figure. This Nigerian public servants and politicians sef, all cursed to the pits of Hades.... smh

patriotic9jaboy:
How did they arrive at the figures without head counts? Incompetent people