Nigeria's Population Now a Whopping 201 Million!

A United Nation Population Fund report has said that the country's population grew by about 5 million people from 2018. Nigeria has the world's third lowest life expectancy rate at 55 years and the total  fertility rate among women has dropped from 6.4 in 1969 to 5.3 in 2019, with women giving birth to at least five children.

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