Nigeria - Population ages 65 and above, female

The value for Population ages 65 and above, female in Nigeria was 2,976,763 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,976,763 in 2020 and a minimum value of 714,186 in 1960.

Definition: Female population 65 years of age or older. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Source: World Bank staff estimates using the World Bank's total population and age/sex distributions of the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

See also:

Year Value
1960 714,186
1961 736,249
1962 756,526
1963 774,314
1964 788,703
1965 799,483
1966 820,969
1967 839,044
1968 854,381
1969 867,780
1970 879,821
1971 904,515
1972 927,013
1973 947,838
1974 967,627
1975 986,904
1976 1,017,080
1977 1,046,469
1978 1,074,869
1979 1,101,971
1980 1,127,773
1981 1,167,150
1982 1,204,254
1983 1,239,522
1984 1,273,627
1985 1,307,288
1986 1,348,171
1987 1,387,135
1988 1,424,250
1989 1,459,409
1990 1,492,779
1991 1,535,757
1992 1,575,249
1993 1,611,819
1994 1,645,956
1995 1,678,212
1996 1,718,705
1997 1,754,712
1998 1,787,124
1999 1,816,896
2000 1,844,898
2001 1,887,872
2002 1,926,019
2003 1,960,046
2004 1,990,925
2005 2,019,648
2006 2,079,393
2007 2,135,872
2008 2,188,848
2009 2,237,907
2010 2,283,371
2011 2,355,150
2012 2,421,685
2013 2,483,759
2014 2,542,215
2015 2,598,067
2016 2,679,044
2017 2,756,059
2018 2,830,451
2019 2,903,547
2020 2,976,763

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: Knowing how many girls, adolescents and women there are in a population helps a country in determining its provision of services.

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population