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  • Ambassadors’ Girls Scholarship Program (AGSP)
  • Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project FANTA
  • Supporting National & Local Capacity to Provide HIV/AIDS Prevention, Testing and Care and Treatment Services to the Nigerian Working Population

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Nigerat a Glance

LocationWestern Africa, southeast of Algeria

Population11,665,937

Population Growth Rate2.63

ReligionsMuslim 80%, remainder indigenous beliefs and Christian

LanguagesFrench (official), Hausa, Djerma

Literacy
definition:  age 15 and over can read and write
total population:  17.6%
male: 25.8
female:  9.7%

Related Resources
CIA Fact Book - Niger