Nigerian population nears 200 million
Nigeria's current population is nearing 200 million, according to the National Population Commission.
Chairman
of the National Population Commission Eze Duruiheoma presented the
figure at the Commission on Population and Development in New York.
He said the country was just two million people away from hitting that 200 million mark.
Mr Duruiheoma noted that at the last census in 2006 Nigeria's population was put at 140 million.
Just
over a decade later, it is the seventh most-populous country in the
world - and one in every 43 person in the world is Nigerian.
Nigeria
is now projected to become the third most-populated country in the world in the
next 30 years.
The UN has projected that it could overtake
Pakistan, Brazil, Indonesia and the US by 2060 at the rate the
country's population is growing.
Last month, the
British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, warned there could
be "a
demographic disaster” in the making, especially as so many young people
are jobless, lack access to education and the competition for
resources.
BBC
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