NIGERIA

POPULATION STATISTICS

• Crude birth rate: 39.7
• Crude death rate: 13.48
• Infants mortality rate: 72.97
• Rate of natural increase: 2.5 percent
• Maternal mortality rate: 630

POPULATION STATISTICS

• Life expectancy: 51.86 years
• GNI per capita: 2,420 ppp dollers
• PPP per capita: 2,500
• Population: 168.8 million

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE POPULATION?

• Experienced a population explosion due to very high fertility rates
• I think nigeria will become the 3rd biggest country
• Because of there high fertility rate
• But first they need to find a cure for Aids

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

• It is under stage 2 because of the high Birth Rate and the falling Death Rate.
• There stage may be like this because of aids
• Or there religious beliefs to have big family's
• And possibly wars happening in all of Africa
• Millions have died in the last decade to to wars in Africa

PREDICTIONS

• I think my country will go to stage 1
• Because they will keep reproducing
• But aids might cause some death
• So it will be high in births and deaths
• Or stay the same

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FUN FACTS ABOUT NIGERIA

• Climate: Very hot
• Food: Spicy pepper soup, made with onions, hot chili peppers
• Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, accounting for about one-fifth of the continent's people.
• More then 250 ethnic groups
• One of the oldest human locations