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In 2021, Nigeria’s female population was roughly 104 million or 49.3%. ...

Nigeria is a signatory to the 1995 United Nations’ Beijing declaration which requires that 35% of political posts be reserved for and occupied by women. The country has however never met this provision. Women hold only 3.6% of the seats in Nigeria’s lower house of representatives, com...

The statistical report on women and men used the Nigeria demographic and health survey to provide data on this indicator for 2013 and 2018. This showed 60.6% of physical violence was committed by current husbands or partners in 2013, dropping slightly to 58% in 2018. Mothers and stepmothers perpetra...

The statistical report on women and men indicates that women form a majority of the victims of trafficking. In 2016, 80.57% of trafficked persons were women. This was at 75.34% in 2017 and 83.55% in 2018. In 2019, it was 80.64%. ...

In 2018, the total fertility rate of women in Nigeria was 5.3 births per woman. This was a slight decline from 5.8 births per woman in 2016 and 2017. This data comes from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, which defined the total fertility rate as the average number of children born ...

According to the statistical report on men and women, female doctors made up less than 35% of all doctors in 2017 and 2018. In 2019 this share increased slightly to 35.04%. ...

In 2019, 56.2% of primary school teachers across Nigeria were female. This dropped to 50.4% in secondary schools and 23.6% among university academic staff. Women accounted for just 15% of professors. ...

Literacy data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) showed that 59.3% of young women aged 15 to 24 in Nigeria were literate, compared to 70.9% for men. This data was from the 2016/17 multi-indicator cluster survey. A person was considered literate if they could read a short, si...

The statistical report on women and men showed 43.43% of people employed by these businesses were women. ...