Federal finance and statistics / National Bureau of Statistics

Demographic Statistical Bulletin 2022

Executive Summary The projected population figure for Nigeria in 2022 was 216,783,381 comprising 108,350,410 males and 108,432,971 females. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria shows that the United Kingdom ranked top among other countries in terms of inward flow of remittance with 12.36 billion US dollars in 2021, while the United States of America stood top in outward flows of remittance within the same period with 13.37 million US dollars. Benin Republic accounted for over half of the total rescued foreign victims of trafficking in Nigeria constituting 61.22% of the entire foreigners rescu…