• No results found

Census-taking in Nigeria : the good, the technical, and the politics of numbers

N/A
N/A
Protected

Academic year: 2021

Share "Census-taking in Nigeria : the good, the technical, and the politics of numbers"

Copied!
12
0
0

Bezig met laden.... (Bekijk nu de volledige tekst)

Hele tekst

(1)

Akinyinka Akinyoade

1

, Eugenia Appiah

2

, Sola Asa

3

1

African Studies Centre Leiden, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden 2333AK.

The Netherlands

a.akinyoade@asc.leidenuniv.nl

2

Research Department, Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice,

Accra, Ghana euappiah@gmail.com

3

Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Obafemi Awolwo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

solaasa2000@yahoo.com

(2)

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007

Year

Population (millions)

(3)

Table 1: Summary of results of Nigeria’s population censuses 1789-2006

No. Governance context Year Result

1 Pre-colonial (Lagos) 1789 5.000

2 Pre-colonial (Lagos) 1815 11.000

3 Pre-colonial (Lagos) 1855 20.000

4 Pre-colonial (Lagos) 1861 30.000

5 Colonial (Lagos) 1871 29.000

6 Colonial (Lagos) 1881 37.000

7 Colonial (Lagos) 1891 33.000

8 Colonial (Lagos) 1901 42.000

9 Colonial (Southern & Northern Nigeria) 1911 16.060.000 10 Colonial (Southern & Northern Protectorates) 1921 18.720.000 11 Colonial (Southern & Northern Protectorates) 1931 20.060.000 12 Colonial (Southern & Northern Protectorates) 1950-53 30.420.000

13 Nigeria (independent) 1962-63 55.660.000

14 Nigeria (independent) 1973 79.800.000

15 Nigeria (independent) 1991 88.500.000

16 Nigeria (independent) 2006 140.003.542

(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)

Referenties

GERELATEERDE DOCUMENTEN

The measures implemented included the following policies: Reform of the public services; accelerated privatisation; reform of the management of public revenue and expenditures;

Yet irrespective of these complications, indigeneship certi ficates have become essen- tial for Nigerian citizens to access a range of public services and opportunities at the

In determining the formulae, the National Assembly shall take into account, allocation principles especially those of Population, Equality of States, Internal Revenue Generation,

44 These include the aborted Corporate Social Responsibility Bill 2007 (CSR Bill), the primary company law legislation in Nigeria, – Companies and Allied

It is beyond doubt that local resent- ment of Igbo dominance, fuelled by Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist leaders, was one of the principal reasons for the majority vote in the

Founded on a claimed vision from God in 2005, the group teaches that Christianity, Islam, and African Indigenous Religions come from the same source and should be

But, in the specific case of Awo, the Yoruba and Nigeria, the local dynamics that predetermine and condition the continued political life of a late hero can be explicated by

Origins, Journeys And Returns: Social Justice In International Higher Education, 89-114. Retrieved