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Nigeria vs South Africa
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Religion

% of population
✝︎ Christian ☪︎ Muslim ☯︎ Folk ⚛︎ Unaffiliated ❖ Other
Nigeria
☪︎
54%
✝︎
46%
☯︎
1%
South Africa
✝︎
86%
☯︎
5%
⚛︎
5%
☪︎
2%
❖
2%

Age

life stages · median
Children 0–14 Adults 15–59 Elderly 60+
South Africa 28.1 median age
28%
65%
7%
Nigeria 18.6 median age
43%
54%
3%

Gender

population split
South Africa
Men 48.7% 51.3% Women
Nigeria
Men 50.6% 49.4% Women

Working Women

workforce %
Nigeria
81%
South Africa
50%
The verdict
median age South Africa
share of women South Africa
women in work Nigeria
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Nigeria vs South Africa — Demographics

One of these leads on women in work by 31 points. Every figure here comes from the same public datasets behind the full comparison — World Bank, IMF, UN and national statistics offices.

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