School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) in Nigeria was reported at 11.81 % in 2018, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Nigeria - School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

Nigeria NG: School Enrollment: Tertiary: Male: % Gross data was reported at 11.989 % in 2011. This records an increase from the previous number of 10.973 % for 2010. Nigeria NG: School Enrollment: Tertiary: Male: % Gross data is updated yearly, averaging 6.861 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2011, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.250 % in 2005 and a record low of 4.997 % in 1987. Nigeria NG: School Enrollment: Tertiary: Male: % Gross data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Nigeria – Table NG.World Bank: Education Statistics. Gross enrollment ratio is the ratio of total enrollment, regardless of age, to the population of the age group that officially corresponds to the level of education shown. Tertiary education, whether or not to an advanced research qualification, normally requires, as a minimum condition of admission, the successful completion of education at the secondary level.; ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Weighted average; Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).

Graph and download economic data for Ratio of Female to Male Tertiary School Enrollment for Nigeria (SEENRTERTFMZSNGA) from 1985 to 2018 about enrolled, Nigeria, ratio, females, tertiary schooling, males, and education.

The completion rate for upper secondary school in Nigeria was higher among male students. In 2020, ** percent of males finished school, whereas this figure reached ** percent among female students. Between 2018 and 2020, the completion rate increased among both male and female upper secondary students.

Education in Nigeria is compulsory between the ages of *** and 15 years. The official entrance age to upper secondary education in Nigeria is 15 years and it has a duration of three years. Higher education (tertiary or post-secondary education) begins at the age of **.

There were over 270 universities in Nigeria as of 2024, two of which were founded within the first half of that year. Of the total count, 149 were private while state and federal universities added up to 63 and 62, respectively. Some of Nigeria's oldest universities are the University of Ibadan, the University of Nigeria, the Obafemi Awolowo University, and the University of Lagos. These four institutions were founded between the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1960s. Nigeria’s biggest institutes As of 2019, the National Open University of Nigeria was the largest university in Nigeria by number of students. The number of all students enrolled in this institution reached 565,000 in the said year. The National Open University of Nigeria is one of the largest open and distance learning institutes in Africa. It is based in Abuja but has several campuses across Nigeria. What Nigerians study the most There were over 1.8 million full-time undergraduate university students in Nigeria as of 2019. Sciences and social sciences were the most common disciplines chosen by Nigerian students. Administration and management followed as the third most popular faculty. Among master and diploma students, however, administration and management had the largest number of students.

In 2020, some ** percent of children in Nigeria completed the last grade of elementary school, with **** percent of males and **** percent of females. In the following educational levels, the disparity between male students and female students became larger, reaching a gap of **** and **** percentage points in the completion rates of middle school and high school, respectively.

Nigeria NG: School Enrollment: Tertiary: Female: % Gross data was reported at 8.296 % in 2011. This records an increase from the previous number of 8.120 % for 2010. Nigeria NG: School Enrollment: Tertiary: Female: % Gross data is updated yearly, averaging 5.363 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2011, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.665 % in 2005 and a record low of 1.770 % in 1985. Nigeria NG: School Enrollment: Tertiary: Female: % Gross data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Nigeria – Table NG.World Bank: Education Statistics. Gross enrollment ratio is the ratio of total enrollment, regardless of age, to the population of the age group that officially corresponds to the level of education shown. Tertiary education, whether or not to an advanced research qualification, normally requires, as a minimum condition of admission, the successful completion of education at the secondary level.; ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Weighted average; Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).

Official entrance age to post-secondary non-tertiary education (years) in Nigeria was reported at 18 years in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Nigeria - Official entrance age to post-secondary non-tertiary education (years) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, male (number) in Nigeria was reported at 3929698 Persons in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Nigeria - Population of the official age for post-secondary non-tertiary education, male - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

Nigeria NG: Tertiary Education: Teachers: % Female data was reported at 27.468 % in 2011. This records an increase from the previous number of 11.625 % for 2010. Nigeria NG: Tertiary Education: Teachers: % Female data is updated yearly, averaging 17.140 % from Dec 1986 (Median) to 2011, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 31.421 % in 1999 and a record low of 11.625 % in 2010. Nigeria NG: Tertiary Education: Teachers: % Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Nigeria – Table NG.World Bank.WDI: Education Statistics. Tertiary education, academic staff (% female) is the share of female academic staff in tertiary education.; ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Weighted average; Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).

As of the academic year 2024/25, the Ambrose Alli University in Nigeria had the highest number of registered students in terms of full-time equivalents worldwide, reaching 536,277. The Tribhuvan University in Nepal and the Payame Noor University in Iran, which followed on the places behind, had approximately 484,000 and 458,000 registered students, respectively. A high number of the universities with the highest number of students in the world are located in Egypt.

In the academic year 2018/2019, Nigerian universities counted 1.8 million undergraduate students and 242 thousand postgraduate students. Among master students, women accounted for 38 percent of the total, while the female percentage among bachelor students was 44 percent.

Nigeria's largest university is the National Open University of Nigeria, which had over half million students as of 2019.

School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, female (number) in Nigeria was reported at 3804180 Persons in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Nigeria - Population of the official age for post-secondary non-tertiary education, female - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, both sexes (number) in Nigeria was reported at 7733878 Persons in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Nigeria - Population of the official age for post-secondary non-tertiary education, both sexes - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

The purpose of this data is to investigate how entrepreneurship centers in Nigerian universities contribute to innovative business idea generation among undergraduates, particularly under varying general economic conditions. Drawing on Ecological Systems Theory, the use of the data conceptualizes entrepreneurship centers as part of the microsystem and general economic conditions captured by inflation, insecurity, power instability, and high interest rates as components of the exosystem. This primary data were collected from 269 final-year students across selected universities and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM).

Time series data for the statistic Government expenditure on tertiary education as % of GDP (%) and country Nigeria. Indicator Definition:Total general (local, regional and central) government expenditure on tertiary education (current, capital, and transfers), expressed as a percentage of GDP. It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. Divide total government expenditure for a given level of education (ex. primary, secondary, or all levels combined) by the GDP, and multiply by 100. A higher percentage of GDP spent on education shows a higher government priority for education, but also a higher capacity of the government to raise revenues for public spending, in relation to the size of the country's economy. When interpreting this indicator however, one should keep in mind in some countries, the private sector and/or households may fund a higher proportion of total funding for education, thus making government expenditure appear lower than in other countries. Limitations: In some instances data on total public expenditure on education refers only to the Ministry of Education, excluding other ministries which may also spend a part of their budget on educational activities. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/

Abstract

Executive Summary

Introduction
This report is based on the Nigeria Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS 5) 2016-17, conducted between September 2016 and January 2017 by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with technical and financial support from UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Save One Million Lives and NACA. The survey provides statistically sound and internationally comparable data essential for developing evidence-based policies and programmes, and for monitoring progress toward national goals and global commitments. Among these global commitments are those emanating from the World Fit for Children Declaration and Plan of Action, the goals of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the Education for All Declaration and the Millennium/Sustainable Development Goals (MDGs/SDGs). The Nigeria Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2016-17 has been designed to measure achievements of MDGs and provide baseline for SDGs. More specifically, Nigeria MICS 2016-17 will assist UNICEF in monitoring and evaluating its country programmes including those on child survival, development, protection and rights of children, women and men.

Survey Objectives The objectives of Nigeria Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2016-17 are to: (1) provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children and women in Nigeria, (2) generate data for the critical assessment of the progress made in various programme areas, and to identify areas that require more attention, (3) contribute to the generation of baseline data for the SDG, (4) provide data needed for monitoring progress toward goals established in the post Millennium Declaration and other internationally agreed goals, as a basis for future action, (5) provide disaggregated data to identify disparities among various groups to enable evidence based actions aimed at social inclusion of the most vulnerable.

Sample and Survey Methodology
The sample for the Nigeria MICS 2016-17 was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators on the situation of children and women at the national, rural/urban, states as well as, the 6 geo-political zones of Nigeria. The states within each zone were identified as the main sampling Strata while the Enumeration Areas (EAs) within each state were identified as the Primary Sampling Units (PSUs). The EAs for the survey were selected from the National Integrated Survey of Households round 2 (NISH2) master samples, based on a list of EAs prepared for the 2006 Population Census. Two stage sampling was conducted with the first stage being the selection of EAs within the strata while the second stage was the selection of households within each EAs. Out of 37,440 households sampled, 35,747 households were visited, 34,289 were occupied and 33,901 were successfully interviewed, representing a household response rate of 98.9 percent. Of these, 34,376 women and 15,183 men age 15-49 years were successfully interviewed.

Questionnaires
Four sets of questionnaires were used in the survey; the household questionnaire, the individual women questionnaire, the individual men questionnaire and the under-five children questionnaire. These were the MICS5 standard questionnaires adapted to Nigeria situation.

Fieldwork and Data Processing
Training for the fieldwork was conducted for thirty-one (31) days in August 2016. The data were collected by 78 teams; each team comprised four interviewers, one driver, one measurer and a supervisor. Fieldwork began in September, 2016 and concluded in January 2017. Using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), the data were electronically captured from the field and transmitted to a central server, using CSPro CAPI application, Version 5.0. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) software, Version 21. Model syntax and tabulation plans developed by UNICEF MICS team were customized and used for this purpose.

Characteristics of Households
The age structure of Nigeria shows a largely young population. Of the 182,165 household members enumerated, forty-Seven percent of the population are under the age of 15 years, contributing to the high dependency ratio in Nigeria. Households are traditionally headed by men, but a substantial proportion, about fifteen percent, of households were headed by women. Majority of Nigerian, 63.4 percent of households, reside in rural areas, with the North West region accounting for the highest proportion, 26.9 percent, while South East region has the least, 9.2 percent. Twenty-two percent of the household heads had no education, while 19.3 had primary education, 26.7 percent with Secondary / Secondary-technical and 16.3 percent had higher education.

Characteristics of Women, Men and Under five Children
Women: Majority of the woman are married, with 7 in 10 women age 15-49 years being currently married. About 23 percent of them had no education, 14.4 percent with primary education, while 36.3 had secondary education and 10.2 percent had higher education. Sixty-four percent of women resides in the rural areas.

Men: In contrast to the women, about half of eligible men were never married. Among the eligible men, 10.3 percent of them had no education, 13.2 percent with primary education, while 45.2 had secondary education and 17.3 percent had higher education. Similar to the women, most men, sixty-three percent, resides in the rural areas.

Children: There is a somewhat higher proportion of children in the rural areas, 69.5 percent, compared to the adult population. Likewise, a higher proportion of children under 5 years old were in the poorest households, 23 percent, compared to 17.8 percent in the richest households.

Child Mortality
MICS 5 estimate of neonatal mortality rate is 39 per 1,000 live births, while Infant mortality rate is 70 per 1,000 live births. This implies that 1 in 15 livebirths in Nigeria die before their first birthday according to the MICS5 2016-17 survey. Also, under-five mortality rate is estimated to be 120 per 1,000 live births – 1 in 9 live births die before their fifth birthday.

Urban-rural mortality differential is pronounced across early childhood age groups. As expected, mortality rates in urban areas are lower than rural areas in Nigeria. Also, mortality is higher in the poorer households, as one out of 6 children who lives in the poorest household in Nigeria die before their fifth birthday. Nine states in the northern region have higher U5 mortality rates than the national average: Nasarawa, Niger, Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, and Zamfara. To achieve SDG 3.2, there must be at least 50 percent reduction in early childhood mortality rates before 2030 across all groups.

Nutrition
Three in 10 children under five years have acute, chronic or both malnutrition. Two in 5 children under five years are stunted and 1 in 5 children under 5 years are severely stunted. Fourteen in 36 states in Nigeria have wasting prevalence that are classified as serious for public health significance. Mothers with at least secondary education have higher proportion of obese children than those with lower and non-formal education. Quite a low proportion of mother, three out of 10, initiated early breastfeeding as recommended by WHO, however, 7 in 10 mothers eventually initiated breastfeeding within 24 hour of birth delivery. The 24 percent exclusive breastfeeding rate is yet to meet the WHO Global nutrition target of 50 percent. One in two infants is predominantly breastfed while just one in five is exclusively breastfed.

Salt Iodization
Iodized salt containing 15 ppm or more are consumed in 69 percent of sampled household with higher prevalence in South South and South East. There was slight variation in households using adequately iodized salt in urban and rural areas. Richer households consume adequately iodized salt more than others in poorer wealth quintile.

Low Birth Weight
Only one in 4 live births were weighed at birth, and fifteen percent of these births are classified as low weight because they are less than 2,500 grams at birth. Although more babies are weighed at birth in the southern part of the country, the proportion of low birth weights babies is less than 20 percent across all the geopolitical zones in Nigeria.

Child health Vaccination coverage is an important indicator of Immunization, one of the cost-effective means of ending preventable deaths of newborn and under 5 children. Eighteen percent of children age 12-23 months received all recommended vaccination by their first birthday in the survey. Specific vaccine coverage are 35 percent for Tuberculosis; 34 percent coverage for polio, 30 percent coverage for pentavalent vaccine, 39 percent coverage for Measles and 36 percent coverage for yellow fever. The MICS 2016-17 survey also showed that about half of women with a live birth in the last two years prior to the survey received antenatal tetanus toxoid, which protected against neonatal tetanus.

Malaria prevention in pregnancy was adequate in only one out of 6 women age 15-49 years, who received three or more doses of SP/Fansidar during their last pregnancy that led to a live birth in the last 2 years. Reported illnesses in under-five children, two weeks preceding survey, are diarrhoea in 14.3 percent, ARI in 3 percent, and malaria fever in 25.4 percent of children under five.

Water and Sanitation Access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is essential to human health. Sixty-four percent of household members use improved sources of drinking water. Only 2.3 percent of households using unimproved drinking water sources have appropriate water treatment method. About fifty-two percent of household population use improved sanitation facility, mostly using pit latrine with slab and flush

BackgroundGiven the health and economic benefits of family planning (FP), Nigeria’s very low demand for FP satisfied by modern methods (mDFPS) of less than 50% is therefore a major public health concern, especially considering the global target aimed at achieving an mDFPS of at least 75% by year 2030 for all countries. In view of this, together with recognising the possible contextual nature of health outcomes, this study aimed to empirically analyse the mDFPS among married or in-union women of reproductive age (WRA) in Nigeria.Materials and methodsA multilevel binomial logistic model with two levels of analysis was used: individual and community levels. Secondary cross-sectional data were obtained from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, and analyses were performed using Stata 15.0. The analytical sample size was 9,122 WRA nested in a total of 1,072 communities.ResultsThe mDFPS was approximately 31.0%. The median odds ratio (MOR) estimated from the final multilevel model was 2.245, which was greater than the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) for most of the individual-level variables, suggesting that the unexplained/residual between-community variation in terms of the odds of women having their mDFPS was more relevant than the regression effect of most of the individual-level variables. This was with the exception of the regression effects of the following individual-level variables: women’s husbands that had higher education level in comparison to their counterparts who had husbands with no formal education (aOR = 2.539; 95% CI = 1.896 to 3.399; p

The Nigeria MDG (Millennium Development Goals) Information System – NMIS education facility data is collected by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development Goals (OSSAP-MDGs) in partner with the Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University. A rigorous, geo-referenced baseline facility inventory across Nigeria is created spanning from 2009 to 2011 with an additional survey effort to increase coverage in 2014, to build Nigeria’s first nation-wide inventory of education facility. The database includes 98,667 education facilities info in Nigeria. The goal of this database is to make the data collected available to planners, government officials, and the public, to be used to make strategic decisions for planning relevant interventions. For data inquiry, please contact Ms. Funlola Osinupebi, Performance Monitoring & Communications, Advisory Power Team, Office of the Vice President at funlola.osinupebi@aptovp.org To learn more, please visit http://csd.columbia.edu/2014/03/10/the-nigeria-mdg-information-system-nmis-takes-open-data-further/ Suggested citation: Nigeria NMIS facility database (2014), the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development Goals (OSSAP-MDGs) & Columbia University

The gross enrollment ratio in upper secondary school in Nigeria dropped over the past years. In 2018, 38.7 percent of population in upper secondary education age was enrolled.

Education in Nigeria is compulsory between the ages of six and 15 years. The official entrance age to upper secondary education in Nigeria is 15 years and it has a duration of three years. Higher education (tertiary or post-secondary education) begins at the age of 18.