What is the difference in population between Bangladesh and Nigeria?

56.42 million people, with Nigeria ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Nigeria?

241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Bangladesh vs Nigeria: Population

Bangladesh

171.47 million people

in 2023

Nigeria

227.88 million people

in 2023

Bangladesh rank

8th

Nigeria rank

6th

Population over time

Bangladesh
Nigeria

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 227.88 million people against 171.47 million people in Bangladesh, a difference of 56.42 million people.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.3 times Bangladesh's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Bangladesh ahead.

Bangladesh ranks 8th and Nigeria ranks 6th of 238 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Bangladesh averaged higher in 22 and Nigeria in 18.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Bangladesh	Nigeria	Difference	Ahead
1000s	7.39 million people	7.00 million people	392,000 people	Bangladesh
1100s	7.68 million people	7.50 million people	180,000 people	Bangladesh
1200s	7.97 million people	8.00 million people	32,000 people	Nigeria
1300s	7.97 million people	9.00 million people	1.03 million people	Nigeria
1400s	9.02 million people	10.00 million people	976,000 people	Nigeria
1500s	9.60 million people	11.00 million people	1.40 million people	Nigeria
1600s	12.48 million people	14.00 million people	1.52 million people	Nigeria
1700s	15.36 million people	18.00 million people	2.64 million people	Nigeria
1710s	15.77 million people	18.80 million people	3.03 million people	Nigeria
1720s	16.09 million people	18.94 million people	2.85 million people	Nigeria
1730s	16.42 million people	19.09 million people	2.67 million people	Nigeria
1740s	16.75 million people	19.24 million people	2.49 million people	Nigeria
1750s	17.10 million people	19.41 million people	2.31 million people	Nigeria
1760s	17.44 million people	19.58 million people	2.14 million people	Nigeria
1770s	17.80 million people	19.77 million people	1.97 million people	Nigeria
1780s	18.16 million people	19.96 million people	1.80 million people	Nigeria
1790s	18.53 million people	20.18 million people	1.64 million people	Nigeria
1800s	19.36 million people	12.10 million people	7.26 million people	Bangladesh
1810s	19.79 million people	12.10 million people	7.68 million people	Bangladesh
1820s	20.40 million people	12.31 million people	8.09 million people	Bangladesh
1830s	21.27 million people	12.78 million people	8.49 million people	Bangladesh
1840s	22.19 million people	13.26 million people	8.93 million people	Bangladesh
1850s	22.94 million people	13.86 million people	9.08 million people	Bangladesh
1860s	23.45 million people	14.63 million people	8.82 million people	Bangladesh
1870s	24.18 million people	15.54 million people	8.64 million people	Bangladesh
1880s	25.20 million people	16.68 million people	8.52 million people	Bangladesh
1890s	26.26 million people	17.94 million people	8.32 million people	Bangladesh
1900s	27.34 million people	19.53 million people	7.81 million people	Bangladesh
1910s	28.18 million people	21.65 million people	6.53 million people	Bangladesh
1920s	29.15 million people	24.56 million people	4.59 million people	Bangladesh
1930s	32.66 million people	28.62 million people	4.04 million people	Bangladesh
1940s	37.70 million people	33.68 million people	4.02 million people	Bangladesh
1950s	45.49 million people	40.63 million people	4.86 million people	Bangladesh
1960s	59.25 million people	49.66 million people	9.59 million people	Bangladesh
1970s	76.99 million people	63.02 million people	13.97 million people	Bangladesh
1980s	98.88 million people	83.95 million people	14.93 million people	Bangladesh
1990s	121.62 million people	109.65 million people	11.97 million people	Bangladesh
2000s	143.36 million people	143.50 million people	136,600 people	Nigeria
2010s	158.62 million people	188.20 million people	29.58 million people	Nigeria
2020s	168.70 million people	220.89 million people	52.19 million people	Nigeria

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher population, Bangladesh or Nigeria?: Nigeria, at 227.88 million people against 171.47 million people in Bangladesh as of 2023.
What is the difference in population between Bangladesh and Nigeria?: 56.42 million people, with Nigeria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Nigeria?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Bangladesh and Nigeria rank globally for population?: Bangladesh ranks 8th and Nigeria ranks 6th of 238 countries.
Where does this data come from?: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.