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Niger People 2018

SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Niger People 2018
SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 28, 2018

Population:
19,245,344 (July 2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 60
[see also: Population country ranks ]

Nationality:
noun: Nigerien(s)
adjective: Nigerien

Ethnic groups:
Hausa 53.1%, Zarma/Songhai 21.2%, Tuareg 11%, Fulani (Peul) 6.5%, Kanuri 5.9%, Gurma 0.8%, Arab 0.4%, Tubu 0.4%, other/unavailable 0.9% (2006 est.)

Languages:
French (official), Hausa, Djerma

Religions:
Muslim 80%, other (includes indigenous beliefs and Christian) 20%

Demographic profile:
Niger has the highest total fertility rate (TFR) of any country in the world, averaging close to 7 children per woman in 2016. A slight decline in fertility over the last few decades has stalled. This leveling off of the high fertility rate is in large part a product of the continued desire for large families. In Niger, the TFR is lower than the desired fertility rate, which makes it unlikely that contraceptive use will increase. The high TFR sustains rapid population growth and a large youth population – almost 70% of the populace is under the age of 25. Gender inequality, including a lack of educational opportunities for women and early marriage and childbirth, also contributes to high population growth. Because of large family sizes, children are inheriting smaller and smaller parcels of land. The dependence of most Nigeriens on subsistence farming on increasingly small landholdings, coupled with declining rainfall and the resultant shrinkage of arable land, are all preventing food production from keeping up with population growth. For more than half a century, Niger's lack of economic development has led to steady net outmigration. In the 1960s, Nigeriens mainly migrated to coastal West African countries to work on a seasonal basis. Some headed to Libya and Algeria in the 1970s to work in the booming oil industry until its decline in the 1980s. Since the 1990s, the principal destinations for Nigerien labor migrants have been West African countries, especially Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire, while emigration to Europe and North America has remained modest. During the same period, Niger’s desert trade route town Agadez became a hub for West African and other sub-Saharan migrants crossing the Sahara to North Africa and sometimes onward to Europe. More than 60,000 Malian refugees have fled to Niger since violence between Malian government troops and armed rebels began in early 2012. Ongoing attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, dating to 2013 in northern Nigeria and February 2015 in southeastern Niger, have pushed tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees and Nigerien returnees across the border to Niger and to displace thousands of locals in Niger’s already impoverished Diffa region.

Age structure:
0-14 years: 49.01% (male 4,757,806/female 4,674,437)
[see also: Age structure - 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 19.1% (male 1,815,689/female 1,860,230)
[see also: Age structure - 15-24 years country ranks ]
25-54 years: 25.97% (male 2,495,927/female 2,501,362)
[see also: Age structure - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 3.28% (male 328,082/female 304,030)
[see also: Age structure - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 2.64% (male 259,046/female 248,735) (2017 est.)

population pyramid:
A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.

For additional information, please see the entry for Population pyramid on the Definitions and Notes page under the References tab.

Dependency ratios:
total dependency ratio: 111.6
[see also: Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio country ranks ]
youth dependency ratio: 106.2
[see also: Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio country ranks ]
elderly dependency ratio: 5.4
[see also: Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio country ranks ]
potential support ratio: 18.6 (2015 est.)
[see also: Dependency ratios - potential support ratio country ranks ]

Median age:
total: 15.4 years
[see also: Median age - total country ranks ]
male: 15.3 years
[see also: Median age - male country ranks ]
female: 15.5 years (2017 est.)
[see also: Median age - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 229

Population growth rate:
3.19% (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 6
[see also: Population growth rate country ranks ]

Birth rate:
44.2 births/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
[see also: Birth rate country ranks ]

Death rate:
11.8 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 23
[see also: Death rate country ranks ]

Net migration rate:
-0.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 127
[see also: Net migration rate country ranks ]

Population distribution:
majority of the populace is located in the southernmost extreme of the country along the border with Nigeria and Benin

Urbanization:
urban population: 19.3% of total population (2017)
[see also: Urbanization - urban population country ranks ]
rate of urbanization: 5.49% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
[see also: Urbanization - rate of urbanization country ranks ]

Major urban areas - population:
NIAMEY (capital) 1.09 million (2015)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - at birth country ranks ]
0-14 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 15-24 years country ranks ]
25-54 years: 1 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 1.04 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 65 years and over country ranks ]
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
[see also: Sex ratio - total population country ranks ]

Mother's mean age at first birth:
18.1 years
note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2012 est.)

Maternal mortality ratio:
553 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 17
[see also: Maternal mortality ratio country ranks ]

Infant mortality rate:
total: 81.1 deaths/1,000 live births
[see also: Infant mortality rate - total country ranks ]
male: 85.5 deaths/1,000 live births
[see also: Infant mortality rate - male country ranks ]
female: 76.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
[see also: Infant mortality rate - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 6

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 55.9 years
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - total population country ranks ]
male: 54.7 years
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - male country ranks ]
female: 57.3 years (2017 est.)
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 213
[See also: Healthy Life Expectancy ]
[See also: Health Performance ]

Total fertility rate:
6.49 children born/woman (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 1
[see also: Total fertility rate country ranks ]

Contraceptive prevalence rate:
16.9% (2016)
[see also: Contraceptive prevalence rate country ranks ]

Health expenditures:
5.8% of GDP (2014)
country comparison to the world: 112
[see also: Health expenditures country ranks ]

Physicians density:
0.02 physicians/1,000 population (2008)
[see also: Physicians density country ranks ]

Drinking water source:
improved: urban: 100% of population rural: 48.6% of population total: 58.2% of population
unimproved: urban: 0% of population rural: 51.4% of population total: 41.8% of population (2015 est.)

Sanitation facility access:
improved: urban: 37.9% of population rural: 4.6% of population total: 10.9% of population
unimproved: urban: 62.1% of population rural: 95.4% of population total: 89.1% of population (2015 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.4% (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 66
[see also: HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
48,000 (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 56
[see also: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS country ranks ]

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
3,400 (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 38
[see also: HIV/AIDS - deaths country ranks ]

Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: malaria and dengue fever
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis
animal contact disease: rabies (2016)

Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
5.5% (2016)
country comparison to the world: 176
[see also: Obesity - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]

Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
37.9% (2012)
country comparison to the world: 4
[see also: Children under the age of 5 years underweight country ranks ]

Education expenditures:
6.7% of GDP (2014)
country comparison to the world: 101

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 19.1%
[see also: Literacy - total population country ranks ]
male: 27.3%
[see also: Literacy - male country ranks ]
female: 11% (2015 est.)
[see also: Literacy - female country ranks ]

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 5 years
[see also: School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - total country ranks ]
male: 6 years
[see also: School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - male country ranks ]
female: 5 years (2012)
[see also: School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - female country ranks ]

Unemployment, youth ages 15-24
total: 2.3%
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - total country ranks ]
male: 4.4%
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - male country ranks ]
female: 0.8% (2007 est.)
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 157


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Niger on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Niger People 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Niger People 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) The assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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