Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered
Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine
Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
the Niger enters the country in the northwest and flows southward
through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of
Guinea
People Nigeria
Population:
137,253,133
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
2004 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 43.4% (male 29,985,427; female 29,637,684)
15-64 years: 53.7% (male 37,502,756; female 36,205,442)
65 years and over: 2.9% (male 1,944,260; female 1,977,564) (2004
est.)
Median age: total: 18.1 years male: 18.2 years female: 17.9 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.45% (2004 est.)
Birth rate:
38.24 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate:
13.99 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate:
0.26 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)