Latest data on population of Nigeria

A LATEST UNITED NATIONS 2017  report has pegged Nigeria's current populationat 190.4 million. 

The report also forecasts that the figure will rise to 194 million by 2018. 

A population website also noted that some locations are considered as having the top five largest local government in Nigeria by population, adding that the biggest one, of course, is a local government in Lagos whereas others are hard to guess. 

The report also disclosed that local administration systems in Nigeria had undergone four different phases with the first phase or epoch being the period between 1914 and 1950, second, between 1950 and 1966, third period lasting from 1967 to 1976 and the final era, began in 1976 and still continues till date. 

Nigeria is a country with 774 local government areas, yet, only five of them is referred to as the largest. 

The latest population report on Nigeria's 36 States and its Federal Capital Territory was reportedly collected in 2006 and has the following figures representing the numbers of humans in millions for each region: 

Kano      -9.3million

Lagos     -9 million

Kaduna  -6 million  

Katsina  -5.7million  

Oyo        -5.5million  

Rivers    -5.1million  

Bauchi   -4.6million  

Jigawa   -4.3million  

Benue    -4.2million

Anambra   -4.1million

Borno        -4.1million

Delta         -4million

Niger        -3.9million

Imo           -3.9 million

Akwa Ibom   -3.9million

Ogun              -3.7million

Sokoto           -3.6million

Ondo             -3.4million

Osun           -3.4million

Kogi            -3.2million

Zamfara     -3.2million

Enugu        -3.2million

Kebbi         -3.2million  

Edo             -3.2million

Plateau     -3.1million

Adamawa   -3.1million

Cross river -2.8million

Abia            -2.8million

Ekiti           -2.3million

Kwara       -2.3million

Gombe     -2.3million

Yobe         -2.3million

Taraba     -2.3million

Ebonyi    - 2.1million

Nasarawa -1.8million

Bayelsa     -1.7million

Federal Capital Territory -1.4million

The latest population report also added that Births are expected to exceed deaths by up to 5.1million, which denotes a positive increase. 

However, it is also expected that the population will decrease due to migration because in the previous year, the number of people leaving the country was higher than the number of those coming in.