Nigeria: 2022 Budget - Despite Losing Major International Funding, Nigerian Govt Refuses to Fund Family Planning

12 November 2021

Nigeria failed to achieve the Family Planning target of enabling more women and girls of reproductive age to have access to contraceptives by the year 2020.

Nigeria had an estimated population of 206 million as of 2020, according to the National Population Commission (NPC), and is projected to become the third most populous nation after China and India by 2050. The 2014 World Urbanisation Prospects also predicts that by 2050, 77 per cent of the country's population will be urban.

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