Statizoid

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
050.0M100.0M150.0M200.0M250.0M100015112023

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.

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