Nigeria: share of international migrants 2020

In 2020, 0.6 percent of the Nigeria population consisted of migrated population. In 1990, about 0.5 percent the country’s inhabitants were migrants. Nigeria has the largest population in Africa, with some 206 million people as of 2020.

International migrants as a percentage of the total population in Nigeria in selected years from 1990 to 2020

Characteristic	Share of international migrants
2020	0.6%
2015	0.7%
2010	0.6%
2005	0.7%
2000	0.4%
1995	0.4%
1990	0.5%

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April 2021

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Nigeria

Survey time period

1990 to H1 2020

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Statistics refer to international migrant stocks. Stocks include all foreign-born residents in a country regardless of when they entered the country. For countries where data on the foreign-born population are not available, UNDESA uses data on foreign citizens. As such, the number of international migrants may not include second-generation migrants that were born in the country but have parents who migrated. Stock data should also not be confused with annual migration flow data (i.e. the number of migrants that entered or left a country within one year)."

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