World population/Niger
Africa
Population of Niger
28,814,878
Growing by 0.03 people every second
#53
world rank
0.35%
of world population
+3.15%
yearly change
+908,817
people this year
1,157,021
births a year
243,200
deaths a year
How the figure for Niger is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Niger at 28,814,878 on 1 July 2026, and projects 29,723,695 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.03 people added every second.
That places Niger at number 53 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.35 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 1,157,021 births and 243,200 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.