Nigeria: households with orphans and foster children

About 13.2 percent of households in Nigeria had, as of 2018, children being raised with neither their mother nor their father present. In addition, 7.3 percent of all households had children with one dead parent and an unknown survival status of the other parent.

Share of households with orphans and foster children under age 18 in Nigeria as of 2018

Characteristic	Share of households
Double orphans	0.7%
Single orphans*	7.3%
Foster children**	13.2%
Foster and/or orphan children	17.6%

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Release date

October 2019

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Region

Nigeria

Survey time period

2018

Number of respondents

40,427 respondents

Special properties

Households

Method of interview

Computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI)

Supplementary notes

*Includes children with one dead parent and an unknown survival status of the other parent.
**Foster children are those under age 18 living in households with neither their mother nor their father present, and the mother and/or the father are alive.

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