Datapoint Nigerian Pidgin/Size of speaker community

While the estimates stood at some 50 million Nigerian Pidgin speakers in 1985, the estimate in 2010 is well over 75 million speakers. Nigerian Pidgin is therefore the African language with the greatest number of speakers, the pidgin/creole language with the greatest number of speakers, and the fastest growing pidgin/creole language in the world.

Values

More than 1,000,000 speakers

Confidence:
Very certain