Editing Lagos (section)

== Demography ==
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|+ style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em"| The 16 LGAs of Metropolitan Lagos
|-
|  style="width:37%; text-align:center; background:#ccf;"| '''[[Local Government Areas in Nigeria|Local Government Area]]''' ||  style="width:21%; text-align:center; background:#ccf;"| '''Land area'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-metrolagos.php | title=Metro Lagos | access-date=28 November 2015 | archive-date=7 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507193524/http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-metrolagos.php | url-status=live }}</ref><br />'''(in km<sup>2</sup>)''' ||  style="width:21%; text-align:center; background:#ccf;"| '''Population'''<ref name=Metropolitan_Lagos_population>The sixteen LGAs making up Metropolitan Lagos (Agege, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Alimosho, Amuwo-Odofin, Apapa, Eti-Osa, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ikeja, Kosofe, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland, Mushin, Ojo, Oshodi-Isolo, Shomolu, Surulere) as per<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/nbsapps/Connections/Pop2006.pdf |title=2006 Population Census |date=May 2007 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria]] |access-date=14 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626113456/http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/nbsapps/Connections/Pop2006.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2011 }}</ref><br />'''(2006 Census)'''
|  style="width:30%; text-align:center; background:#ccf;"|'''Population'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nigeria: Administrative Division (States and Local Government Areas) – Population Statistics, Charts, and Map |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/nigeria/admin/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=citypopulation.de}}</ref><br />'''(2022 estimate)'''|| style="width:30%; text-align:center; background:#ccf;" | '''2006 Density <br />(inh. per km<sup>2</sup>)'''
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Agege]]|| 17 || 459,939 
|683,600||  41,071
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Ajeromi-Ifelodun]]|| 13.9 || 684,105 
|1,017,500||  55,474
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Alimosho]]|| 137.8 || 1,277,714 
|1,953,500|| 6,899
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Amuwo-Odofin]]|| 179.1 || 318,166 
|487,000||  2,364
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Apapa]]|| 38.5 || 217,362 
|330,100||  8,153
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Eti-Osa]]|| 299.1 || 287,785 
|420,100||  1,496
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Ifako-Ijaiye]]|| 43 || 427,878 
|633,200||  16,078
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Ikeja]]|| 49.92 || 313,196 
|470,200||  6,785
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Kosofe]]|| 84.4 || 665,393 
|1,010,800||  8,174
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Lagos Island]]|| 9.26 || 209,437 
|314,900||  24,182
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Lagos Mainland]]|| 19.62 || 317,720 
|483,600||  16,322
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Mushin, Lagos|Mushin]]|| 14.05 || 633,009 
|935,400||  36,213
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Ojo, Lagos State|Ojo]]|| 182 || 598,071
|901,800||  3,781
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Oshodi-Isolo]]|| 41.98 || 621,509 
|931,300||  13,886
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Somolu]]|| 14.6 || 402,673 
|597,400||  34,862
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Surulere]]|| 27.05 || 503,975 
|744,400||  21,912
|- style="text-align:center;"
| '''Metropolitan Lagos'''|| '''1,171.28''' || '''7,937,932''' 
|'''11,914,800'''||  '''7,941'''
|}

Although the 2006 National Population Census of [[Nigeria]] credited the metropolitan area with a population figure of 7,937,932, the figure is at variance with some projections by the United Nations and other population agencies and groups worldwide. The population figure of [[Lagos State]] given by the Lagos State Government is 17,553,924. That figure was based on claimed conducted enumeration for social planning by the Lagos State Government's "parallel census" and it believes that since the inhabitants of the metropolitan area of Lagos constitute 88% of the Lagos State population, the population of metropolitan Lagos is about 15.5 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20070207234037zg/important_documents/Lagos_Census_Affairs|title=Document|publisher=Nigerian Muse Online|date=7 February 2007|access-date=4 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208100555/http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20070207234037zg/important_documents/Lagos_Census_Affairs|archive-date=8 February 2010}}</ref>

A rejoinder to Lagos State Government views<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.economicconfidential.com/repopulation.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529025842/http://www.economicconfidential.com/repopulation.htm |archive-date=29 May 2010 |title=NATIONAL POPULATION COMMISSION – MISUNDERSTANDING, MISPERCEPTION AND MISREPRESENTATION OF CENSUS 2006 A REJOINDER TO THE PUBLICATION – "The Falsification of Lagos Census Figure" by Lagos State Government |publisher=Economicconfidential.com |access-date=2 June 2010 }}</ref> concluded that Lagos State concealed the fact that the population projection, for Lagos Urban Agglomeration by the UN agencies, had been revised downwards substantially as early as 2003. It failed to interpret the two most important and fairly representative and reliable secondary data sets already in the public domain, the National Identity Card Scheme and the 2003 Voters Registration figures from INEC. The figures for 2007 voter registration by INEC were an act sequel to the release of the provisional census results and comprehensively corroborated, vindicated and validated the population figures.
According to the official results of the 2006 census, there were 8,048,430 inhabitants in Metropolitan Lagos.<ref name=Metropolitan_Lagos_population/> This figure was lower than anticipated and has created controversy in Nigeria. Lagos Island, the central Local Government Area and historic center of Metropolitan Lagos, had a population of 212,700 at the 2006 Census.<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/Connections/Pop2006.pdf| title=Legal Notice on Publication of the Details of the Breakdown of the National and State Official Totals 2006 Census| journal=Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette |date=2 February 2009 |volume=96 |issue=2 |access-date=29 June 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070704042011/http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/Connections/Pop2006.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 4 July 2007}}</ref>

Authorities of Lagos State have disputed the results of the 2006 census, accusing the Nigerian National Population Commission of undercounting the population of the state. This accusation is denied by the National Population Commission.<ref>{{cite news |first= Kemi |last= Obasola |title= Lagos rejects population commission's figures |url= http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/punch/2007/02/05/lagos_rejects_population_commissionas_figures_announces_stateas_population_as_175m.php |work= The Punch |publisher= Punch Nigeria Limited, via Biafra Nigeria World News |date= 5 February 2007 |access-date= 11 December 2007 |archive-date= 31 December 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071231114023/http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/punch/2007/02/05/lagos_rejects_population_commissionas_figures_announces_stateas_population_as_175m.php |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.population.gov.ng/press-02-07.pdf| title=Lagos State Claim on the Provisional Result of the 2006 Census is Unfounded| first=National Population Commission|last=[[Government of Nigeria]]|date=8 February 2007 |access-date=29 June 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070623051012/http://www.population.gov.ng/press-02-07.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 23 June 2007}}</ref> A study found that research carried out by Africapolis (the African subsidiary of e-Geopolis backed by the [[French Development Agency|Agence française de développement]]), in addition to the cross-referencing of official figures with more scientific independent research concluded that the 2006 census figures for Lagos State of about 9 million were valid and that the state's own assessments are inflated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-nigerias-population-figures/|title=FACTSHEET: Nigeria's population figures|publisher=Africa Check|access-date=2 June 2016|archive-date=21 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160621060905/https://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-nigerias-population-figures/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lagos is indigenous to [[Yoruba people]], the central [[Yoruba language]] is widely spoken. It is by most estimates, one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.<ref name = africareport/> Lagos is experiencing a population increase of about 275,000 persons per annum due to the influx of people from other regions for economic purposes. In 1999, the [[United Nations]] predicted that the city's metropolitan area, which had only about 290,000 inhabitants in 1950, would exceed 20 million by 2010 and thus become one of the ten most populated cities in the world.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=NewYork Bests |date=14 January 2023 |title=Lagos: Growing Really Fast |url=https://newyorkbests.com/lagos-growing-really-fast/ |access-date=19 July 2023 |website=NewYork Bests |language=en-GB}}</ref>

{{Historical populations|1950|325,218|1960|762,418|1970|1,413,528|1980|2,572,218|1990|4,764,093|2000|7,280,706|2010|10,441,182|2019|13,903,620|align=none|footnote=source:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://population.un.org/wup/|title=World Urbanization Prospects – Population Division|publisher=United Nations|access-date=31 January 2022|archive-date=19 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200119092357/https://population.un.org/wup/|url-status=live}}</ref> for Lagos Agglomeration}}