{"id":202632,"date":"2025-07-17T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-investing-in-nigerians-reproductive-health-fuels-rights-choice-and-progress\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:03:19","slug":"nigeria-why-investing-in-nigerians-reproductive-health-fuels-rights-choice-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-investing-in-nigerians-reproductive-health-fuels-rights-choice-and-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why Investing in Nigerians&#8217; Reproductive Health Fuels Rights, Choice, and Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the sixth most populous country globally, with an estimated population of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/countries\/nigeria\/factsheets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">236.7<\/a> million people. With an annual growth rate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/countries\/nigeria\/factsheets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2.52%<\/a>, the population is projected to double by 2050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pub-pdf\/swp25-layout-en-v250609-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report<\/a>, 32% of respondents identified <a href=\"https:\/\/populationconnection.org\/blog\/the-real-fertility-crisis-still-unintended-pregnancy-and-forced-birth\/#:~:text=Nigeria%2C%20for%20example,have%20two%20children.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two children<\/a> as the ideal family size. However, more than one in ten Nigerians report having more children than they desired. This gap between aspiration and reality&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170066.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the sixth most populous country globally, with an estimated population of 236.7 million people. With an annual growth rate of 2.52%, the population is projected to double by 2050. According to the 2025 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, 32% of respondents identified two children as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9650,11211,5731,9522,257,4687,393,6665,943,21005,5100,254],"class_list":["post-202632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-choice","tag-fuels","tag-health","tag-investing","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-progress","tag-reproductive","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}