StatiSense ® - Wale Micaiah © Nigeria Global Competitive Index: Health & Primary 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 4 th Pillar: Health and Primary Education, 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. 4 th Pillar: Health and Primary Education

The 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 & Scores Effort = 1 – C3/C2 YearCountry CountRankScoreEffort % % % % % % % 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 142 nd of 144 Nations with a best effort of 1.39% in 2012, indeed this Sector needs immediate resuscitation.

Health and Primary Education scores Indicators Health and Primary Education Business impact of malaria Malaria cases/100,000 pop Business impact of tuberculosis Tuberculosis cases/100,000 pop Business impact of HIV/AIDS HIV prevalence Infant mortality, deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy, years Quality of primary education Primary education enrollment 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’ Ranking Indicators Health and Primary Education Business impact of malaria Malaria cases/100,000 pop Business impact of tuberculosis Tuberculosis cases/100,000 pop Business impact of HIV/AIDS HIV prevalence Infant mortality, deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy, years Quality of primary education Primary education enrollment  Worst ranking in Primary education enrollment – 2012  Best effort achieved in Tuberculosis cases – ranked 101 st in 2012  Consistent deterioration in Malaria cases, HIV prevalence, Infant Mortality, and Primary education enrollment  All time worst ranking in 2012 at 142 nd 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 142 nd of 144 Nations in Health and Primary Education. In each Indicator, Nigeria is ranked from 101 st in Tuberculosis cases to 140 th in Primary Education Enrollment.

Average Nigeria

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