The population there is more than 213 million and accounts for about 17 percent of the total population of the African continent. More than 20 percent of all black people live in Nigeria. There are more than 250 ethnic groups. The most numerous and politically influential are Hausa and Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, and Tiv.
The proportion of immigrants in the population is only 1-4 percent. There are slight minorities from England, the United States, India, China, Japan, Syria, Libya, and refugees and immigrants from other African countries (largely Sierra Leone), as well as former slaves from Brazil who arrived there in the 19th century.
