Christians - 49.3 percent
Muslims - 48.8 percent

The U.S. government estimates the total population at 203.5 million (July 2018 estimate). A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life estimated the population to be 49.3 percent Christian and 48.8 percent Muslim, while the remaining 2 percent belong to other or no religions. Many individuals combine indigenous beliefs and practices with Islam or Christianity. A 2010 Pew report found 38 percent of the Muslim population self-identified as Sunni and 12 percent as Shia, with the remainder declining to answer or identifying as “something else” (5 percent) or “just a Muslim” (42 percent). Included among the Sunnis are several Sufi groups, including Tijaniyah and Qadiriyyah. There are also Izala (Salafist) minorities and small numbers of Ahmadi Muslims. Christian groups include evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Pentecostals, Baptists, Anabaptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Other groups include Jews, Baha’is, and individuals who do not follow any religion.

The Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri ethnic groups are most prevalent in the predominantly Muslim northern states. Significant numbers of Christians, including some Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri, also reside in the north. Christians and Muslims reside in approximately equal numbers in the central region and southwestern states, including Lagos, where the Yoruba ethnic group, whose members include both Muslims and Christians, predominates. In the southeastern states, where the Igbo ethnic group is dominant, Christian groups, including Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists, constitute the majority. In the Niger Delta region, where the Ogoni and Ijaw ethnic groups predominate, Christians form a substantial majority, and a very small minority of the population is Muslim. Evangelical Christian denominations are growing rapidly in the central and southern regions. Ahmadi Muslims maintain a small presence in several cities, including Lagos and Abuja.

Source: US Government - https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-report-on-international-religious-freedom/nigeria/?fbclid=IwAR1sn1irdMn61v1cdmpTrR4AXuPgmbOcY-4uDfdfJHDHUvPxScz3TBhzNxY

Best population data on Nigeria so far!

2018. That was four years ago.


Vote Tinubu 2023. Vote APC.

If you have travel wide in Nigeria, you will agree with this population statistics.

In other African countries, their population census data form include 'Religion' so that the govt we have adequate religious demograph and plan well but in Nigeria, the northern elites are always against the inclusion of 'Religion' in the census form. What are they afraid of?

Interesting..

@Seniorwriter

More accurate than what our own census body gives us

About 216m now.

Christians are more than muslims in Nigeria. It may be reaching 50% as against 47%.


Peter Obi for President

VoteTinubu2023:
2018. That was four years ago.


Vote Tinubu 2023. Vote APC.

Tinubu's name is AHMED....not hammed.

Hammed does not exist as a name in Islam or in Arabic

Christians are the majority but not united like the muslim brothers, that makes them be like minority.
and one ilitrate is rulling over them.