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Population in Bosnia and Herzegovina compared to Nigeria: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bosnia and Herzegovina was 3,164,253 in 2024 vs 232,679,478 people in Nigeria in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bosnia and Herzegovina's population is 3,140,094 people compared to 241,467,099 in Nigeria.

Population statistics:

  • Nigeria's population is 76.9 times bigger than Bosnia and Herzegovina's.
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina is ranked the 135th most populous country in the world, while Nigeria is the 6th.
  • The countries together account for 2.96% of the world: 0.04% for Bosnia and Herzegovina vs 2.92% for Nigeria.
  • For the last 10 years, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had an average growth rate of -1.19% per year vs +2.31% in Nigeria.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina has decreased from 4.1M people to 3.14M (23.3% decline), while Nigeria has grown from 145M to 241M (66.5% growth).
  • Nigeria is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 477M people, while Bosnia and Herzegovina's population already peaked in 1991 at 4.46M people and is projected to decrease to 1.37M people by 2100.

Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Nigeria: live population counter

Bosnia Nigeria
Current population
3140094
241467099
Population rank 135/197 6/197
Percent of world population 0.04% 2.92%
One net population change
25.2 minutes
6.58 seconds
One birth every
21.4 minutes
4.2 seconds
One death every
12.3 minutes
11.8 seconds
One migration net change every
1.95 hours
14.9 minutes
Annual migration change -4,497 -35,202
Daily growth/decline -57 +13,141
Annual growth/decline -20,820 +4,796,533
Annual growth/decline rate -0.65% +2.1%
Population growth rate rank 188/197 50/197

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Nigeria: population history and growth rate by year chart

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Population

Growth rate
Nigeria
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bosnia Nigeria Bosnia Nigeria
1960 3,281,381 45,053,782 - -
1961 3,348,035 45,989,310 2.03% 2.08%
1962 3,407,532 46,965,292 1.78% 2.12%
1963 3,461,942 47,973,575 1.6% 2.15%
1964 3,513,441 49,012,016 1.49% 2.16%
1965 3,562,834 50,086,764 1.41% 2.19%
1966 3,610,562 51,188,234 1.34% 2.2%
1967 3,656,223 52,293,065 1.26% 2.16%
1968 3,698,794 53,432,783 1.16% 2.18%
1969 3,737,765 54,631,914 1.05% 2.24%
1970 3,773,247 55,893,838 0.95% 2.31%
1971 3,809,376 57,214,684 0.96% 2.36%
1972 3,848,271 58,601,748 1.02% 2.42%
1973 3,887,376 60,082,139 1.02% 2.53%
1974 3,926,472 61,679,144 1.01% 2.66%
1975 3,965,743 63,410,815 1% 2.81%
1976 4,004,552 65,258,009 0.98% 2.91%
1977 4,042,124 67,234,590 0.94% 3.03%
1978 4,078,240 69,326,532 0.89% 3.11%
1979 4,113,300 71,498,242 0.86% 3.13%
1980 4,148,426 73,764,641 0.85% 3.17%
1981 4,184,217 76,068,103 0.86% 3.12%
1982 4,221,100 78,378,701 0.88% 3.04%
1983 4,258,728 80,438,260 0.89% 2.63%
1984 4,295,536 82,526,443 0.86% 2.6%
1985 4,330,364 84,897,973 0.81% 2.87%
1986 4,362,115 87,235,953 0.73% 2.75%
1987 4,390,246 89,591,716 0.64% 2.7%
1988 4,414,404 92,020,090 0.55% 2.71%
1989 4,433,983 94,531,014 0.44% 2.73%
1990 4,448,652 97,120,925 0.33% 2.74%
1991 4,458,343 99,720,162 0.22% 2.68%
1992 4,234,616 102,372,770 -5.02% 2.66%
1993 3,904,482 105,122,069 -7.8% 2.69%
1994 3,725,412 107,935,714 -4.59% 2.68%
1995 3,715,564 110,819,428 -0.26% 2.67%
1996 3,875,246 113,754,779 4.3% 2.65%
1997 4,018,227 116,754,792 3.69% 2.64%
1998 4,089,356 119,846,254 1.77% 2.65%
1999 4,130,305 123,047,320 1% 2.67%
2000 4,159,771 126,382,494 0.71% 2.71%
2001 4,179,438 129,862,595 0.47% 2.75%
2002 4,188,002 133,471,989 0.2% 2.78%
2003 4,178,523 137,202,644 -0.23% 2.8%
2004 4,140,987 141,057,045 -0.9% 2.81%
2005 4,096,493 145,017,253 -1.07% 2.81%
2006 4,063,272 149,077,334 -0.81% 2.8%
2007 4,013,424 153,267,261 -1.23% 2.81%
2008 3,947,544 157,595,014 -1.64% 2.82%
2009 3,879,794 162,049,464 -1.72% 2.83%
2010 3,811,472 166,642,886 -1.76% 2.83%
2011 3,741,798 171,379,598 -1.83% 2.84%
2012 3,670,113 176,200,625 -1.92% 2.81%
2013 3,610,859 181,049,443 -1.61% 2.75%
2014 3,564,829 185,896,915 -1.27% 2.68%
2015 3,518,541 190,671,878 -1.3% 2.57%
2016 3,473,003 195,443,700 -1.29% 2.5%
2017 3,428,682 200,254,579 -1.28% 2.46%
2018 3,387,000 204,938,755 -1.22% 2.34%
2019 3,345,533 209,485,641 -1.22% 2.22%
2020 3,299,349 213,996,181 -1.38% 2.15%
2021 3,244,907 218,529,286 -1.65% 2.12%
2022 3,204,802 223,150,896 -1.24% 2.11%
2023 3,185,073 227,882,945 -0.62% 2.12%
2024 3,164,253 232,679,478 -0.65% 2.1%
2025 3,140,094 237,527,783 -0.76% 2.08%
2026 3,114,242 242,431,830 -0.82% 2.06%
2027 3,088,090 247,374,258 -0.84% 2.04%
2028 3,062,434 252,346,128 -0.83% 2.01%
2029 3,037,868 257,352,638 -0.8% 1.98%
2030 3,013,973 262,380,975 -0.79% 1.95%
2031 2,990,094 267,421,079 -0.79% 1.92%
2032 2,964,774 272,483,635 -0.85% 1.89%
2033 2,937,841 277,555,116 -0.91% 1.86%
2034 2,909,781 282,622,388 -0.96% 1.83%
2035 2,881,541 287,685,757 -0.97% 1.79%
2036 2,854,431 292,739,390 -0.94% 1.76%
2037 2,827,715 297,773,236 -0.94% 1.72%
2038 2,801,180 302,782,350 -0.94% 1.68%
2039 2,773,788 307,764,754 -0.98% 1.65%
2040 2,745,008 312,710,403 -1.04% 1.61%
2041 2,715,219 317,607,237 -1.09% 1.57%
2042 2,685,730 322,450,302 -1.09% 1.52%
2043 2,656,998 327,243,941 -1.07% 1.49%
2044 2,628,409 331,983,354 -1.08% 1.45%
2045 2,599,923 336,662,502 -1.08% 1.41%
2046 2,570,920 341,281,757 -1.12% 1.37%
2047 2,541,510 345,844,004 -1.14% 1.34%
2048 2,512,786 350,347,757 -1.13% 1.3%
2049 2,484,040 354,792,418 -1.14% 1.27%
2050 2,455,167 359,185,550 -1.16% 1.24%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina decreased by 577,952 people (a 14.1% decline), while Nigeria gained 45,654,625 people (a 31.5% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bosnia and Herzegovina lost -378,447 (a 10.8% decline), while Nigeria's population increased by 50,795,221 (a 26.6% growth).

Bosnia and Herzegovina was ranked 123rd most populous country in 2005 and is 135th in 2025. Nigeria was ranked 7th in 2005 and ranked 6th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Bosnia and Herzegovina's population will shrink by 21.8% to 2,455,167 people with a rank change from 135th to 143rd. The population of Nigeria will increase by 48.8% to 359,185,550 people and rank change from 6th to 5th.

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