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Title:               Population, Total for Nigeria
Series ID:           POPTOTNG52647NWDB
Source:              World Bank
Release:             World Development Indicators (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:           5 Year
Units:               Persons
Date Range:          1967-01-01 to 2012-01-01
Last Updated:        2014-06-10 6:11 PM CDT
Notes:               This series is a 5-year aggregation of the series
                     https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POPTOTNGA647NWDB used to calculate
                     per capita versions of other 5-year series in FRED. The aggregation of
                     series occurs at the end of the period in years that end in two or
                     seven (i.e. 1972, 1977, 1982...).
                     
                     World Bank, the original source, defines the original series as
                     follows:
                     
                     "Total population is based on the de facto definition of population,
                     which counts all residents regardless of legal status or
                     citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the
                     country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population
                     of their country of origin. The values shown are midyear estimates.

DATE            VALUE
1967-01-01   52468594
1972-01-01   58829321
1977-01-01   67425439
1982-01-01   77729805
1987-01-01   88412920
1992-01-01  100592242
1997-01-01  113979481
2002-01-01  129224641
2007-01-01  147187353
2012-01-01  168833776