In a chat with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday at the commencement of fieldwork for the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), NPC Chairman, Eze Festus Odimegwu, said Nigeria's population grows at 3.2 per cent per annum, and that the country's population would hit 170 million by the end of 2013.
Odimegwu, who was represented by the Chairman, NPC Technical Management Team and Vital Registration, Dr Festus Uzor, said that effective management of Nigeria's population for sustainable development requires "collection, processing and dissemination of demographic data, not only through periodic census exercise but also regular surveys and registration of births, deaths and migration."
He said the NPC, in conjunction with other development partners like the UNFPA and Department For International Development (DFID) would finance the NDHS project, which he described as "a nationally representative survey, designed to provide information on the demographic and health status of the population."
The NPC chairman disclosed that the fieldwork for NDHS 2013 would take place within four months in the South West (Lagos), South East (Imo), South South (Akwa Ibom), North Central (Nasarawa), North East (Gombe) and North West (Jigawa).
The NDHS survey would be carried out in 40,680 households that have been randomly selected in all states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, later in the year
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