Demography indicators showed little change when compared to results from the 2018 NORM survey. The average household size in 2019 was found to be five persons, 17% of households were headed by women. Nearly 9% of the population are children under five years of age, while 14% are adults over 50 years. The findings show that 1 in 10 households have at least one person living with disabilities, while the proportion of the entire population living with disabilities is 6%. This amounts to about 11 million people in Nigeria living with disabilities. At the time of the survey, slightly more than 58% of households lived in core rural areas, while 41% households ranked among the poor to the poorest wealth quintiles. It was observed from the findings that 56% of the rural households, only 8% of the urban households, and at least half of the population in the North Central (48%), North East (63%) and North West (67%) belong to the poor and poorest wealth quintiles. The health status of households showed that about 1 in 10 households (11%) reported suffering from diarrhea in the past six weeks preceding the survey. Among these households, 72% of the household members who suffered diarrhea cases are children under five.

Data source: National Bureau of Statistics

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