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Nigeria Global

Competitive Index:

Health Health Health Health & & & &

2006200620062006----2012201220122012

Primary EducationPrimary EducationPrimary EducationPrimary Education

The World Economic Forum (WEF) Geneva,

Switzerland produces a yearly report to measure

countries and regions competitiveness among

Nations of the world using Global Competitiveness

Index (GCI)

This presentation focuses on Nigeria’s GCI rating

from 2006 – 2012 on the 4444thththth PillarPillarPillarPillar:::: HealthHealthHealthHealth andandandand

PrimaryPrimaryPrimaryPrimary EducationEducationEducationEducation, for the purpose of knowing how

healthy and viable our Health and Primary

Education are over a period of 7years as this would

help know where more efforts need to be applied in

order to achieved better growth and development.

4444thththth PillarPillarPillarPillar: Health : Health : Health : Health andandandandPrimary EducationPrimary EducationPrimary EducationPrimary Education

The 12 Pillars of GCIThe 12 Pillars of GCIThe 12 Pillars of GCIThe 12 Pillars of GCI� Institutions

� Infrastructure

� Macroeconomic Environment

� Health and Primary Education� Higher Education & Training

� Goods Market Efficiency

� Labor Market Efficiency

� Financial Market Development

� Technological Readiness

� Market Size

� Business Sophistication

� Innovation

BASIC

REQUIREMENTS

EFFICIENCY

ENHANCERS

INNOVATION &

SOPHISTICATION

FACTORS

A healthy workforce is vital to a country’s competitiveness and

productivity. Workers who are ill cannot function to their potential and

will be less productive. Poor health leads to significant costs to business,

as sick workers are often absent or operate at lower levels of efficiency.

Investment in the provision of health services is thus critical for clear

economic, as well as moral, considerations.

In addition to health, this pillar takes into account the quantity and quality

of the basic education received by the population. Basic education

increases the efficiency of each individual worker. Moreover, workers

who have received little formal education can carry out only simple

manual tasks and find it much more difficult to adapt to more advanced

production processes and techniques, and therefore contribute less to

come up with or execute innovations.

In other words, lack of basic education can become a constraint on

business development, with firms finding it difficult to move up the value

chain by producing more sophisticated or value-intensive products with

existing human resources.

There were 10 indicators used to measure the

viability of Nigeria’s Health and Primary Education:

� Business impact of malaria� Malaria cases/100,000 population� Business impact of tuberculosis� Tuberculosis cases/100,000 population� Business impact of HIV/AIDS� HIV prevalence� Infant mortality, deaths/1,000 live births� Life expectancy, years� Quality of primary education� Primary education enrollment

Indicators 1, 3, 5 and 9 were measured on a scale of 1 – 7.Indicator 6 and 10 were measured in percentage.

Nigeria Ranking & ScoresNigeria Ranking & ScoresNigeria Ranking & ScoresNigeria Ranking & Scores

Effort = 1 – C3/C2

Year Country Count Rank Score Effort

2006-2007 121 115 3.57 4.96%

2007-2008 131 124 3.55 5.34%

2008-2009 134 126 3.59 5.97%

2009-2010 133 132 2.96 0.75%

2010-2011 139 137 3.00 1.44%

2011-2012 142 140 3.28 1.41%

2012-2013 144 142 3.20 1.39%

Nigeria’s best effort was made in 2008 at a woeful 5.97%

performance; ever since, it has been a downward plunge.

Our health is in crisis, ranked at 142nd of 144 Nations with a best

effort of 1.39% in 2012, indeed this Sector needs immediate

resuscitation.

Health and Primary Education scoresIndicators 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Health and Primary Education 3.57 3.55 3.59 2.96 3.00 3.28 3.20

Business impact of malaria 4.22 3.87 4.52 4.07 2.62 2.75 3.37

Malaria cases/100,000 pop. 2103.61 2103.61 2026.65 42787.52 39736.35 39736.35 36059.50

Business impact of tuberculosis 4.32 4.62 5.09 4.45 3.90 4.01 4.32

Tuberculosis cases/100,000 pop. 531.31 282.55 311.00 311.00 302.67 295.00 133.00

Business impact of HIV/AIDS 3.07 3.83 5.02 4.56 3.71 3.81 4.33

HIV prevalence 5.40 3.90 3.10 3.10 3.10 3.60 3.60

Infant mortality, deaths/1,000 live births 103.00 103.00 101.00 99.00 95.80 85.80 88.40

Life expectancy, years 46.00 46.00 48.00 49.00 47.91 48.14 51.41

Quality of primary education 2.51 3.13 2.71 2.59 3.12 3.23

Primary education enrollment 60.10 67.85 63.42 63.81 61.40 61.40 57.55

With about 40% of the population infected with

Malaria, 88 of 1,000 infant death, Life expectancy at

51years and Primary Education Enrollment on a

downward movement; economic development and

sustenance is highly at risk.

Indicators’ RankingIndicators 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Health and Primary Education 115 124 126 132 137 140 142

Business impact of malaria 104 122 113 116 135 134 129

Malaria cases/100,000 pop. 105 113 112 130 136 135 141

Business impact of tuberculosis 102 104 91 107 124 123 118

Tuberculosis cases/100,000 pop. 107 115 117 116 120 123 101

Business impact of HIV/AIDS 107 108 79 98 118 121 114

HIV prevalence 111 119 120 119 124 129 130

Infant mortality, deaths/1,000 live births 117 126 127 127 135 134 139

Life expectancy, years 114 123 128 124 133 136 134

Quality of primary education 113 88 109 122 105 102

Primary education enrollment 111 121 125 126 133 138 140

� Worst ranking in Primary education enrollment – 2012

� Best effort achieved in Tuberculosis cases – ranked 101st in 2012

� Consistent deterioration in Malaria cases, HIV prevalence, Infant

Mortality, and Primary education enrollment

� All time worst ranking in 2012 at 142nd of 144 Nations

Malaria, Tuberculosis,

HIV, Infant mortality,

Life expectancy!

Drop in Quality of

primary education and

enrollment!

A country cannot be more healthy than the health of her

Citizens. It is a healthy workforce that can contribute to the

growth of businesses and in turn the economy.

No thanks to Gov’t allocations to the Health sector which

according to professionals is a child’s play compared to other

Nations. This has shown as Gov’t officials and their allies

prefer to seek medical attention in Germany, Saudi Arabia,

Israel and India.

Nigeria currently ranks 142nd of 144 Nations in Health and Primary Education.

In each Indicator, Nigeria is ranked from

101st in Tuberculosis cases to 140th in

Primary Education Enrollment.

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Data source:

- The World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/

- The Global Competitiveness Index 2012-2013 data platform

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