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  • Just in: Nigerian men outnumber women as world population hits 7.7bn

    The population of the world hits an estimated 7,713,468,000, the United Nations Population Division said on Monday.

    According to the World Population Prospect released by the UN on Monday, the medium-variant projection indicates that the global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and 10.9 billion in 2100.

    The fine data also shows that males outnumber females in Nigeria, and the world as a whole, negating the popular belief that women outnumber men in the West African country.

    Nigeria is estimated to be at 200,964,000 as of mid-year 2019, with 99,132,000 million females and 101,832,000 males.

    On the globe, there are an estimated 3,889,035,000 males and 3,824,434,000 females.

    Fertility in Nigerian women equal to or greater than four live births per woman, making Nigeria one of the most fertile countries in the world

    The population of Africa has risen by over 32 million in the past year, raising the numbers to over 1.308 billion people on the continent.

    United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) says “with a projected addition of over one billion people, countries of sub-Saharan Africa could account for more than half of the growth of the world’s population between 2019 and 2050”.

    “The world’s population is projected to grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 8.5 billion in 2030 (10% increase), and further to 9.7 billion in 2050 (26%) and to 10.9 billion in 2100 (42%). The population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2050 (99%),” the report read in part

    “Other regions will see varying rates of increase between 2019 and 2050: Oceania excluding Australia/New Zealand (56%), Northern Africa and Western Asia (46%), Australia/New Zealand (28%), Central and Southern Asia (25%), Latin America and the Caribbean (18%), Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (3%), and Europe and Northern America (2%)”.

    OVER 65 BEAT UNDER 5 — FIRST TIME EVER

    The world is getting older, and so are the inhabitants; in 2018, for the first time in history, persons aged 65 years or over worldwide outnumbered children under age five.

    Projections indicate that by 2050 there will be more than twice as many persons above 65 as children under five.

    The UN also revealed that the populations of “both Pakistan and Nigeria more than doubled in size between 1990 and 2019, with Pakistan moving up in rank from the 8th to the 5th position and Nigeria from the 10th to the 7th position”.

    Nigeria is still projected to be the third most populous country from 2050 to 2100, with a population of 733 million at the end of the century.

    “After this re-ordering between 2019 and 2050, the ranking of the five largest countries is projected to be preserved through the end of the century, when India could remain the world’s most populous country with nearly 1.5 billion inhabitants, followed by China with just under 1.1 billion, Nigeria with 733 million, the United States with 434 million, and Pakistan with 403 million inhabitants,” the report read.

  • Nigeria, India, 7 other countries to account for half of world population growth by 2050 – UN

    Nigeria, India, 7 other countries to account for half of world population growth by 2050 – UN

    The UN says nine countries will account for half of the world’s population growth from 7.6 billion in 2017 to 9.8 billion in 2050.

    The UN in a projection, named India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the United States, Uganda and Indonesia, the report from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, as the nine countries.

    The UN said that in spite of fertility levels declining in nearly all regions in the world, the group of 47 least-developed countries had a relatively high level of fertility at 4.3 births per woman in 2010 to 2015.

    The world body added that in Africa, populations in 26 countries are projected to expand to at least double their current size.

    Nigeria is set to overtake the US in population by 2050.

    The concentration of population growth in the poorest countries will pose a challenge for the UN’s goals of improving healthcare, education and equality to end poverty and hunger in the developing world.

    Meanwhile, Europe’s population is predicted to continue ageing, with the percentage of people aged 60 or older rising from 25 percent in 2017 to 35 percent in 2050.

    A growing number of countries now have fertility rates below the replacement level that keeps the population level constant, the 10 most populous of which are China, the U.S. Brazil, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, Iran, Thailand and Britain.

    The movement of refugees and other migrants will go some way to compensating for dwindling population growth, especially in Europe, but will not fully compensate for the decline, the report notes.