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Nigeria recorded the highest number of malaria deaths across the world in 2021, according to the latest World Malaria Report. According to the report, Nigeria accounted for 31% of the 619,000 deaths recorded worldwide (191,890 deaths), of which Africa recorded a total of 599,000 deaths during this p...

As of 12 December 2022, Lagos had the largest number of Covid-19 cases with 104,204 lab-confirmed cases. ...

Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world, with a national prevalence rate of 32% of children under the age of five. ...

In Nigeria, the rate of suicide is considerably high at 6.9 per 100,000 of the population in 2019. This translates to roughly 7,019 people a year. The current rate is less than the average global rate of 9 per 100,000. However, the rate is likely higher as underreporting related to the stigma and il...

Nigeria’s total fertility rate was 5.2 births per woman in 2020. ...

According to the latest UN global estimates, about 5.5% of the population aged between 15 and 64 years used drugs at least once in 2021, while 36.3 million people, or 13% of the total number of persons who use drugs, suffer from drug use disorders. In Nigeria, at 14.4%, the drug use prevalence is si...

The most commonly abused drugs in the country are tramadol and codeine. Tramadol is a synthetic opioid analgesic used to treat moderate to severe pain and is the most abused medicine among addicts. Codeine is an opiate and product of morphine mainly used to treat pain, coughing, and diarrhoea. Codei...

About 12 million people in Nigeria were estimated to be obese in 2020, with prevalence considerably higher among women. This amounts to a prevalence rate of 5.82% (based on Nigeria's 2020 population estimate.) ...

A 2021 report from the HPV Centre estimates that every year more than 12,000 Nigerian women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and almost 8,000 of them die from the disease. ...