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
Highlights
Human Development has become prominent and is one of the most important variables to check effective growth of a system
Based on Life expectancy at birth, Mali with a smaller gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national income (GNI) compared to Nigeria has a higher years in Life expectancy because of the over population in Nigeria compared to income and the extent of inequality and lack of consistent improvement based on allocation to the health sector
Human development is a necessary prerequisite to ascertain the socio-economic development of a country
Summary
Human Development has become prominent and is one of the most important variables to check effective growth of a system. 2.3 Human Development index Biswas and Caliendo (2007) opined that the HDI assesses how well countries are doing in terms of non-income measures It calculates the simple average of life expectancy, education and GDP indexes. Graham (2010) wrote that HDI provides an opportunity for the international development community to reevaluate the ways by which welfare is measured and human progress Graham defined it as a simple statistic of life expectancy, education and per capita indicators which are used to rank countries based on Human Development. The pool of natural, mineral and human resources embedded in the country is so large to postulate that in the presence of good and progressive political leadership structure, the rate of economic growth and intense Human Development which is the key aspect of prosperity and critical to sustainability would have been seen in Nigeria long ago. The place of job creation and instilling the mindset of wealth creation and service providers is very key
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