Nigeria 
Facts
Population: 135,031,164
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 42.2% (male 28,726,380/female 28,301,729)
15-64 years: 54.7% (male 37,543,678/female 36,277,038)
65 years and over: 3.1% (male 1,987,521/female 2,194,818) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.379% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 40.2 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 16.68 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0.26 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.015 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.035 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.906 male(s)/female
total population: 1.022 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 95.52 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 102.44 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 88.38 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 47.44 years
male: 46.83 years
female: 48.07 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 5.45 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 5.4% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 3.6 million (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 310,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Nigerian(s)
adjective: Nigerian.
Ethnic groups: Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%.
Religions: Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10%.
Languages: English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 68%
male: 75.7%
female: 60.6% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $191.4 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 5.3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,500 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 17.3%
industry: 53.2%
services: 29.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 48.99 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 70%
industry: 10%
services: 20% (1999 est.).
Population below poverty line: 60% (2000 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.6%
highest 10%: 40.8% (1996-97).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.5% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 5.8% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $17.86 billion
expenditures: $19.05 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: cocoa, peanuts, palm oil, corn, rice, sorghum, millet, cassava (tapioca), yams, rubber; cattle, sheep, goats, pigs; timber; fish.
Industries: crude oil, coal, tin, columbite; palm oil, peanuts, cotton, rubber, wood; hides and skins, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel, small commercial ship construction and repair.
Industrial production growth rate: -1.6% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 19.06 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 17.71 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 20 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $59.01 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products 95%, cocoa, rubber.
Exports - partners: US 52.5%, Spain 8.2%, Brazil 6.1% (2005).
Imports: $25.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery, chemicals, transport equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals.
Imports - partners: China 10.4%, US 7.3%, UK 6.7%, Netherlands 6%, France 5.9%, Brazil 4.3%, Germany 4.2% (2005).
Debt - external: $6.278 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $250 million (1998).
Currency (code): naira (NGN).
Exchange rates: nairas per US dollar - 127.38 (2006), 132.59 (2005), 132.89 (2004), 129.22 (2003), 120.58 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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A.M. News
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Abuja Mirror
Abuja
Anchor, The
(progressive), Lagos
(Independent), Lagos
http://www.champion-newspapers.com/
Daily Sketch
(Government-owned), Ibadan
Daily Times
(Independent), Lagos
(Conservative), Abuja
http://www.mtrustonline.com/dailytrust
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The buildup to the April elections in Nigeria was tense. Nervous citizens flooded embassies to obtain visas, withdrew money from banks, and stockpiled food. Many feared there would be civil unrest—or possibly even a military coup—following Nigeria’s first civilian-run presidential poll in 20 years.
Jean-Christophe Servant reports that Nigeria's problems—its violence, its poverty, its corruption, its inequities—are encroaching upon its new capital, Abuja.
In an editorial, Lagos' independent This Day urges the losers of Nigeria's elections to seek redress in the courts and the winners to be gracious in their victory.
Jean-Christophe Servant, writing from Abuja, Nigeria, reports that this month's national elections are fraught with risks for the country.
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