Macro-economic variables and mortality rate nexus: focus on Nigeria

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact critical macroeconomic drivers like economic growth (gross domestic product (GDP)/capita), inflation and population size on mortality rate Nigeria. general lockdown imposed by government curb spread coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had so many effects loss jobs, insecurity, businesses collapsing, salary cuts, unemployment increased prices commodities in market. Design/methodology/approach focused secondary data for period 1991–2019 GDP/capita, inflation, which were obtained from World Development Indicators (WDI). Time series analysis tests augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF), Bounds co-integration autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) used determine stationarity conditions variables, presence among variables short-run long-run relationships between endogenous exogenous variables. Findings study shows that are stationary at different orders i.e. I (0) (1) There exists a positive relationship GDP/capita means increase does not reduce country, there also but no Originality/value clearly examines