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Report: Nigeria Facing Record Hunger Crisis by 2026

Report: Nigeria FacesFacing Record Hunger Crisis as 35 Million at Risk by 2026

Report: Nigeria Facing Record Hunger Crisis by 2026
Above: Nigerian agronomist Mercy Diebiru-Ojo (R) in a greenhouse in Ibadan, Nigeria, on Sept. 29, 2025.  Image credit: Olympia de Maismont/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

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ThereNigeria's iseconomic achallenges 33%are chancetemporary thatgrowing Nigeria'spains populationfrom necessary reforms that will exceedsecure 400long-term millionprosperity. beforeThe 2050naira has actually strengthened since March, accordingwhile to the Metaculusgovernment predictionactively communityfights hunger through grain releases, emergency nutrition support and expanded school feeding programs. These surgical economic changes are yielding green shoots of recovery.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 33% chance that Nigeria's population will exceed 400 million before 2050, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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