The 2024 State of the Nation Report indicates that life expectancy in Nigeria, though improving, remains below the global average at 54.6 years.
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Scientific discoveries and medical innovations which are products of deep research are responsible for increased life expectancy in Nigeria and other countries of the world. This was the thought of Nigeria’s pride on the global health stage, Dr Chike Ihekweazu.
Gatefield, a policy advocacy group, has inaugurated a comprehensive health strategy aimed at combating Nigeria’s alarming life expectancy crisis, which currently averages 52 years.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE).
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says there has been an upward trend in the life expectancy of both males and females from 2020 to 2022.
Clean-up Nigeria (CUN), a Non- Governmental Organization, has called on all stakeholders to imbibe good sanitation practices in order to increase life expectancy.
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, has said that global life expectancy for both sexes has increased from 46 to 73 years.
An economist and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Bismarck Rewane has said that Nigeria’s life…