"According to the most recent UN projections, Nigeria will nearly double its population again by 2050 to an estimated 377 million. In the process, the country will leap-frog Pakistan and Indonesia and end up in a virtual tie with the US as the third most populous country in the world."

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And the funny part is that with all these people young men in Nigeria often can't find a partner.

Basically the rich men buy up all the women, from school age. They have loads of kids to try to keep that rich man's interest (and money)so the population keeps growing.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Projections are as valuable as the paper they're printed on, but this is crazy to me. 9% the size of USA but the same population . . . and the political and economic situation in all of Africa is such a mixed bag.

https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/nigeria-market-overview

[–]neolib[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Their population growth is unreal: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Historical_population_of_Nigeria.svg/1024px-Historical_population_of_Nigeria.svg.png (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria)

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a lot of nigras for the Chinese to exploit.