- Capital: Niamey
- POPULATION: 12.525 Million
- LANGUAGES: French(official)
- Median age: 17
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 50.73
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 20.91
- Life expectancy: 43.76
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 17.6%
  male: 25.8%
  female: 9.7% (2003 est.
- Independence: 3 August 1960 from France
- GDP per capita: 800

home