Canada?s quality of life in the health aspect is superior to Nigeria?s. Canada is a 1st world country, and the technology to repair and improve health is more advanced. This should not make you think that Nigeria is a totally useless country when it comes to health. Since donations have been made to Nigeria to develop their health supplies and Nigerian citizens are learning the basic and midlevel medical education, life can be said to have been improved.

However, it is confusing how the statistics of 1996 and 2003 differ.

	1996	2003
Population	103 900 000	133 881 703
Birth Rate	43 per 1000	38.75 per 1000
Death Rate	12 per 1000	13.76 per 1000
Infant Mortality Rate	87 per 10000	71.35 per 1000
Life Expectancy	(male) 55 (female) 58	(male) 50.89 (female) 51.14

The population has increased since by around 30 000 000 since 1996. Yet the birth rat, death rate, infant mortality rate and life expectancy show that Nigerians are dying off faster than 1996. While it would have been predicted that by year progressed more people would live, and that they would live longer, it has been proven wrong by the statistics shown by the World FactBook.

The answer to this enigma is found by the following three factors: the difficulties in economy that struck many countries in Africa since the 1970's, civil, ethnic wars and other quarrels, as well as the sudden increase of HIV.

Health concerns for birth rate decreased because of the rise of haemorrhage. It accounts for 15% of the maternal deaths. 13% pregnant women die because of insecure abortions. Hypertensive pregnancy diseases kill off 12% of the women and 8% from hindered labour. In a study conducted in northern Nigeria shows that only 25% of babies are delivered unassisted at home. It is also proven that the facilities provided by WHO in Nigeria have constant shortages of drugs, human resources and compulsory equipment. The worst deficiency is that of trained attendants.