Nigeria vs Pakistan: Population

Nigeria

227.88 million people

in 2023

Pakistan

247.50 million people

in 2023

Nigeria rank

6th

Pakistan rank

5th

Population over time

Pakistan currently reports 247.50 million people against 227.88 million people in Nigeria, a difference of 19.62 million people.

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

The two have swapped places 5 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 6th and Pakistan ranks 5th 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.