POPULATION GROWTH INDUCED AND HOUSEHOLDS FINANCIAL VULNERABILITY IN NIGERIA

Chidinma C. Mbah, Chike K. Okoli, Chinecherem M. Uzonwanne

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Nigeria has been recording a rapid increase in its population over the years. This reality has posed a serious concern for the welfare of households especially as the increase in population growth puts households at the risk of financial vulnerability. Based on this, this study is on the move to examined the impact population growth induced has on household in Nigeria. The study made use of secondary data obtained from World Bank and the Central Bank statistical bulletine spanning from 1981 to 2020 to analyze the impact of population growth induced and its financial vulnerability on household using a structural vector autoregressive model (SVAR). After the analysis, the study found out that in the long run, an increase in financial vulnerability, due to an increase in population growth decreases household welfare in Nigeria. Hence, this study recommends that the Nigerian legislature should formulate a law against rapid population growth induced to ensure that the increase in population does not outscore the means of subsistence.

JEL: H10; H31

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population growth; financial vulnerability; household welfare

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejefr.v5i2.1155

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