NLAID - Activity in Nigeria

Information on Nigeria

Birth rate 35.51 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 26.7% (2008) country comparison to the world: 24

Climate varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north

Death rate 16.06 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution; desertification; oil pollution - water, air, and soil; has suffered serious damage from oil spills; loss of arable land; rapid urbanization

Infant mortality rate
total 91.54 deaths/1,000 live births
male 97.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female 85.31 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani, over 500 additional indigenous languages

Life expectancy at birth
total population 47.56 years
male 46.76 years
female 48.41 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 68%
male 75.7%
female 60.6% (2003 est.)

Maternal mortality rate 840 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 9

Natural resources natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, arable land

Population
155,215,573 (July 2011 est.)
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, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected

Population growth rate 1.935% (2011 est.)

Religions Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10%

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 9 years
male 10 years
female 8 years (2005)

Fighting Human Rights Abuses against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender individuals, communities and HR defenders in Nigeria

Project code NL-1-PPR-19217

NLAID - Activity in Nigeria

Information on Nigeria

10 counselling Centres in 10 different states on reduction of Ignorance, Poverty & Gender-Based Violence

ONDERZOEKSPROGRAMMA

promote magistrates'courts integrity and improve access to justice

Baseline studies, training & advocacy

Direct Assistance and Capacity Building Assistance to Victims of Trafficking

FSA/2011/01

Traditional Leadership in Nigeria

Fighting Human Rights Abuses against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender individuals, communities and HR defenders in Nigeria

1973S00 algemene ODA-activitietene

DPV NOMRA Research on African Migration Issues

Creating awareness Niger Delta Human Rights, Womens Rights, Environmental Rights, Voluntary principles

Bijdrage aan betere toegang tot gezondheidszorg dmv ontwikkeling en versterking verzekeringstelsels

Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award 2010

Centre for Conflict management and Peace Studies

partnership in the Bayaelsa Expenditure and Income Transparency Initiative and Judicial Integrity Action Programme

Prevent trafficking of Nigerian women to Europe

FSA/2011/02

Legal Advocacy and Human Rights in Niger Delta