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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.
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.