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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

Will Nigeria be the third most populous country in the world?

In recent years population growth has slowed rapidly. Experts believe that the global population will stabilise somewhere around 11 billion people. But just because global population is stabilising doesn’t mean each country is following the global trend. Some projections estimate that the population of Nigeria will increase rapidly to the point that there will be more people living in Nigeria than the whole of Europe combined. We look at the methods behind this claim.

(A sea of shoppers and vendors in Lagos' crowded Oshodi Market, Nigeria. Getty images/James Marshall)

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Mon 3 Jan 2022 10:50GMT

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