期刊名称：Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti Bulletin : Economic Sciences Series
印刷版ISSN：2284-8576
电子版ISSN：2247-8582
出版年度：2020
期号：1
页码：9-21
语种：English
出版社：Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
摘要：The consumption of energy and its resulting effect on the population health is very crucial to the development of any nation. Hence,this study investigated the interactive effect of poverty and energy consumption on life expectancy in Nigeria from 1980 to 2017. Secondary data were used for the study. Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) approach was used to anaylse the time series data. The study revealed that poverty had negative and significant impact on life expectancy in the short-run and in the long-run. Also,energy consumption had positive and significant impact on life expectancy in the longrun. The coefficient of interactive effect of poverty and energy consumption is negative and significant on life expectancy in the short run and in the long-run. This result affirms that fossil fuel consumptions dominate energy consumption mix in Nigeria which showed that majority of Nigerian populace do not have access to renewable energy. This fact is buttressed by the coefficient of interactive effect of poverty and petroleum products consumption on life expectancy which is negative and significant in both short run and long-run. Therefore,in order to increase the life expectancy in Nigeria,government should reduce poverty and also ensure that people make use of clean energy that is healthy as a source of energy.
