Brazil vs Nigeria: Population

Brazil

211.14 million people

in 2023

Nigeria

227.88 million people

in 2023

Brazil rank

7th

Nigeria rank

6th

Population over time

Nigeria currently reports 227.88 million people against 211.14 million people in Brazil, a difference of 16.74 million people.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Brazil's.

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

Brazil ranks 7th and Nigeria ranks 6th of 238 countries.

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.