Is Nigeria overpopulated or underpopulated?

Answer 1

Population:
131,859,731
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 42.3% (male 28,089,017/female 27,665,212)
15-64 years: 54.6% (male 36,644,885/female 35,405,915)
65 years and over: 3.1% (male 1,930,007/female 2,124,695) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 18.7 years
male: 18.7 years
female: 18.6 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.38% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
40.43 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
16.94 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
0.27 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female
total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 97.14 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 104.05 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 90.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 47.08 years
male: 46.52 years
female: 47.66 years (2006 est.)
Total fertility rate:
5.49 children born/woman (2006 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
5.4% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
3.6 million (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
310,000 (2003 est.)
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: malaria
respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis
aerosolized dust or soil contact disease: one of the most highly endemic areas for Lassa fever (2005)


good luck.

Answer 2

1/3rd of Nigeria is in India, peddling drugs, scamming people and commiting fraud. Its in the papers everyday. So I guess its underpopulated as most Nigerians live abroad.

Answer 3

yes