According to the said data, a male in nigeria has average life expectancy of just 53. Socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy in nigeria core. Situational analysis, ordinary least square and the granger causality test techniques were employed. The table below shows the life expectancy of both male and female since the year 1996 till 2015 table 2. Table of life expectancy in nigeria since the year 20042015. Health expenditure distribution and life expectancy in nigeria. A female, on the other hand, is said to have average life expectancy of 55. Chart and table of nigeria life expectancy from 1950 to 2020. Nigeria institute for health metrics and evaluation. Life expectancy at birth, total years nigeria 1 united nations population division. The figures reflect the quality of healthcare in the countries listed as well as other factors including ongoing wars, obesity, and. In 2006, the overall expectation of life at birth was 77. Issues and further considerations article pdf available may 2018 with 743 reads how we measure reads.
This study is concerned with understanding the factors that affect the life expectancy in 6 countries for the period 20022010. This very low number can be attributed to the fact that the country has a lot of health issues. Life expectancy is a statistic that measures the number of years a person may live in relationship to the general population. In 2016, the difference in life expectancy between females and males increased 0. The current life expectancy for nigeria in 2020 is 54. Based on the life expectancy value, nigeria is ranked 216 in the world, and 16th in africa. An analysis of three decile averages show that between 1980 and 1989, in nigeria, life expectancy averaged 45. Socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy in nigeria. Life expectancy at birth was below 60 years in only 21 countries in orange to red on the map, between 60 and 69 years in 49 countries yellow to light blue, between 70 and 79 years in 97 countries.
Pdf this study empirically investigates the effects of population growth on average life expectancy in nigeria taking into account the explicit. Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years mf per 1 000 population, 2016 372333. Effects of socioeconomic factors on nigerias life expectancy at birth. Timothy po 2018 impact of economic globalization on life expectancy in nigeria. Life expectancy in nigeria now 55 years who vanguard news. The global life expectancy has been increasing since 2000. Between 1990 and 2017, nigerias life expectancy at birth increased by 8. Several nonsovereign entities are also included in this list. That is, an improvement or increases in the share of government expenditure on health sector, the increase in the life expectancy. Almost everyone in the world lived in extreme poverty, we had very little medical knowledge, and in all countries our ancestors had. This brought the total life expectancy of nigeria to 54.
Nigeria life expectancy at birth life expectancy at birth, female years the value for life expectancy at birth, female years in nigeria was 54. Socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy in nigeria 1980. South africa has the lowest life expectancy in the world. Nigeria demographics 2020 population, age, sex, trends.
The three maps show the global history of life expectancy over the last two centuries. Life expectancy at birth for the world, which increased from 64. Life expectancy at birth, total years nigeria data. Nigeria life expectancy at birth is at a minimum of 36. Between 1990 and 2018, nigerias life expectancy at birth increased 8. Pdf on may 11, 2019, dachi arikpo and others published determinants of life expectancy in nigeria. According to the report, despite worldwide increase in life expectancy, nigeria, with an average score of 54. World population life expectancy with historical chart. Increasing the life expectancy of nigerians pharmanewsonline. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
By 2020, the average life expectancy in nigeria will rise to 55. However, this le value and the countrys ranking is expected to increase over the next few years. Pdf population growth and life expectancy in nigeria. Attainment of 70 years life expectancy by 2020 is one of the millennium development goals in nigeria.
However, in many of the countries in subsaharan africa and nigeria in particular, although income and health expenditure is increasing figure 1, life expectancy has been unsteady. This study examined the socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy in nigeria using data from 19802011. Again a thirteen year average 19992011 data on life expectancy, under five infant mortality rate, per capita income and unemployment rate for. Impact of economic globalization on life expectancy in nigeria. The recently published 2016 world health statistics report by the world health organisation who lumping nigeria among countries with the lowest life expectancy figures calls for serious concern. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth leb, which can be defined in two ways.
Updated statistics on the incidence and mortality of oesophageal cancer, and on the disabilityadjusted lifeyears dalys caused by the disease, can assist policy makers in allocating. Life expectancy, public health spending and economic. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average see below time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 54. Probability of dying under five per 1 000 live births, 2018 120. The paper examines the link between life expectancy, public health spending and economic development in nigeria for the period 1995 to 2017.
The role of the demographic transition matteo cervellati university of bologna, iae barcelona and iza uwe sunde university of st. While considerable progress has been made in closing the longevity differential between countries, large gaps remain. However the average life expectancy for male in nigeria is forty while that of female is fifty two. Notably, the average life expectancy at birth in nigeria is merely 53 years in recent years, while it is above 80 years for countries like france. Again a thirteen year average 19992011 data on life ex pectancy, under five infant mortality rate, per capita income and unemployment rate for nigeria, ghana. The life expectancy is shown separately for males and females, as well as a combined figure. Increasing life expectancy in nigeria through higher. Life expectancy for females was consistently higher than it was for males. From 2005 to 2006, life expectancy at birth increased for all groups considered.
Nigerians life expectancy shortened by malaria, others. Cohort leb is the mean length of life of an actual birth cohort all individuals born a given. In 2016, life expectancy at age 65 for the total population was 19. According to the latest who data published in 2018 life expectancy in benin is. Data used were life expectancy at birth, public health expenditure and the gross domestic product gdp sourced from the world bank data.
In nigeria, the latest figures from who put it at 55. List of countries and dependencies in the world ranked by life expectancy at birth, both sexes, males and females. The life expectancy in nigeria is, unfortunately, the lowest in all of west africa. Nigeria life expectancy at birth by gender 20072017.
According to the latest who data published in 2018 life expectancy in nigeria is. Increasing life expectancy in nigeria the borgen project. United nations projections are also included through the year 2100. Environmental hazards and life expectancy in africa. According to the life expectancy literature, the determinants of life expectancy can be classified into social, economic and environmental factors.