By: Keyur Kadiwar

NATURAL POPULATION INCREASE

NIGERIA
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LOCATION

▸ 9.0820 degrees north

▸ 8.6753 degrees east

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By: Keyur Kadiwar
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POPULATION AND POPULATION GROWTH

▸ The population is 198,608,000 people

▸ Yearly population growth rate is 2.6%

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LIFE EXPECTANCY
▸ Male life expectancy is 54.7 years

▸ Female life expectancy is 55.7 years

▸ Average life expectancy is 55.2 years

▸ World rank of life expectancy is 178

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LITERACY RATE

▸ The current literacy rate is 59.6% in 2015

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PER CAPITA INCOME

▸ The per capita income is 2412 US dollars

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POPULATION BELOW POVERTY

▸ Nigeria has the worlds largest poor population

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MAJOR EMPLOYMENT SECTOR

▸ Most working class and working age people work in the

industry sector which includes: mining, manufacturing,
construction and public utilities.
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BIRTH AND DEATH RATE

▸ The crude death rate is 12.5 per 1000 people

▸ The crude birth rate is 38.9 per 1000 people

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FERTILITY RATE

▸ The current fertility rate is 5.526 births

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POPULATION PYRAMID AND POPULATION PROJECTION

REASON FOR DECLINING
DEATH RATES
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HIGH FERTILITY RATES

▸ High fertility rates are caused by less usage of

contraceptions.

▸ This is because in Nigeria people don’t understand what

family planning is and believe in the idea of more the
people more the money.

▸ The rates are high as people also get married at a early

age.

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WORKING STATUS

▸ A combined total of 67.5 percentage of the working

population are from the eld of agriculture and industrial
works.

▸ The people who work in this eld are poor and believe
that more the children more the money, and these people
aren’t well educated so they without any thought they
conceive children.

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LOW LITERACY RATES

▸ There is no knowledge of conceptions.

▸ There is no knowledge of family planning.

▸ There is no knowledge of what problems the nation will

face if there will be a greater population.

PROBLEMS FACED
BY THE COUNTRY
By: Keyur Kadiwar
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ENERGY CONSUMPTION

▸ Usage of electricity and other energy resources in the

country increased and country will have problems in
catching up with the usage.
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INCREASE IN POLLUTION

▸ There has been an increase in carbon emissions as the

population has risen.
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ECONOMICAL INSTABILITY

▸ The GDP of Nigeria has fallen as the population has

increased.
EFFORTS AND POLICIES BY
THE COUNTRY TO SOLVE
THE PROBLEMS FACED
By: Keyur Kadiwar
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MARITAL AGE LIMIT

▸ The legal age for marriage for women is 18 years while for
men it is 24 years.

▸ This was the rst policy.

▸ This helps in decreasing the fertility rate over a long time.

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BIRTH INTERVALS

▸ Pregnancies in the age bracket 18 to 35 years can have

babies at intervals of 2 years only.

▸ This is the second policy introduced by the government.

▸ This creates less time for conceiving a child and this will
drop the fertility rates in the future.

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FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMMES

▸ $100 million are provided for family planning

programmes.

▸ $67 million are provided by US agency of international

development. This is their largest population programme
in Africa.

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KEYUR KADIWAR