The CSO said that, for the first time, it observed an increase in the number of Local Electoral Areas (LEAs) which are ...

The Central Statistics Office has published the latest birth and death rates in each of the Republic's local electoral areas ...

Nigeria is set to become the world’s third-most populous country by mid-century, but the fertility rate there shrank from 5.8 to 4.6 – more than a whole baby – between 2016 and 2021.

It's often assumed that low fertility rates are due to people simply not wanting to have children, or more than one or two, but a report from the United Nations Population Fund says that's not the ...