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Nigeria has the world’s fifth-largest Muslim population and its sixth-largest Christian population. It is the only country that ranks among both the 10 largest Muslim populations and the 10 largest Christian populations.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thanks Virginia - much appreciated! I've been running a personal blog for about 20 years so I didn't want to migrate it to Substack after all this time. But you can subscribe to the feed or sign up to get content by email if that helps?

Just added & refreshed, if you check that post again!
July 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The UN pojects it will peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s but they are constantly revising that. Some think it will peak at 9 billion in 2050s and then fall dramatically.

ourworldindata.org/un-populatio...
Peak global population and other key findings from the 2024 UN World Population Prospects
Falling fertility rates, migration movements, and China’s population decline.
ourworldindata.org
June 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM