Federal finance and statistics / National Bureau of Statistics

Nigeria Living Standards Survey 2020

Highlights Nigeria has a large base of young population- more than 54 percent of all males and more than 51 percent of all females are younger than 20 years of age. The share of males and females in total population is roughly equal: 49.2 and 50.8 percent respectively. This pattern is similar across rural- urban areas and across the states, except for Enugu state, where ratio of males over females is only 0.82. The average household size in Nigeria is 5.06 persons per family: in rural areas the size is higher - 5.42 individuals versus 4.50 in urban areas. The highest household size is in Jigaw…