Nigeria Population Explorer — Populace · WorldPop

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Nigeria

Click a unit on the map to see its time series

Populace = quarterly (line). WorldPop R2025A constrained = annual, plotted at mid-year (dots). Both summed within the same polygon.

National totals

Fastest-changing units

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Unit-level agreement

Each dot is one unit; log–log axes; dashed line = 1:1. Populace uses the Q2 estimate of the selected year (mid-year, matching WorldPop's reference date).

Annual growth: Populace vs WorldPop

Compound annual growth 2020→selected year per unit. Disagreement here shows the products imply different spatial patterns of change, not just different levels.

Largest disagreements

DTM region Unit Displacement series Round A Round B Map colour Treat missing as 0 Express as % of population at A

Does Populace change track displacement change?

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Populace change by displacement-change group

Units grouped by their Δ displaced (A→B). Bars show the median Populace change in each group; whiskers span the interquartile range. If Populace captured displacement flows, the bars would rise from left to right.