Human Development in Nigeria

Abstract

Human development in Nigeria has been a topic for research by many researchers based on the consistent poor Human Development feedbacks which is seen in the yearly HDR reports by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The research focuses on the Human Development in Nigeria using the three main indicators which include education, life expectancy and income. The researcher collected data from the yearly Nigeria HDR reports from the UNDP. Data were also collected Nigeria Ministry of Education, World development indicators and Nigeria Bureau of statistics. Evident from the study shows that human development is quite low. Nigeria is a low human developed country.  Despite the abundant of both natural and human resources, the development rate in Nigeria is very slow and pathetic. Education, health and income per head is Nigeria is at a staggering low point with several parts of Northern Nigeria lives below the US$1.50 per day poverty line while education is at a very critical low. The result also shows that inequality gap in Nigeria is one of the highest in Africa. In comparison to other West Africa countries like Ghana, Togo and Mali which were studied, Nigeria is still low.

Keywords: Human development, Human development index, Education, Health, Life expectancy, income

DOI: 10.7176/JAAS/61-06

Publication date: February 29^th 2020