Lagos Flashcards

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Population?

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  • Largest city in Africa
  • Population increases by 600,000/yr
  • Population over 21 mil
  • Half of population UNDER 25
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Importance?

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  • 80% of Nigeria’s industry
  • 25% of Nigeria’s GDP
  • Media, arts, transport, services
  • 80% of flights into West Africa into Lagos Airport
  • Tertiary jobs
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Informal sector?

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  • 90% of new jobs created informally (e.g. street vending)
  • Can give poor/uneducated people money to improve QoL
  • Poor working standard (no minimum wages, no maximum hours, no health benefits)
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Health care?

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  • Underfunded and understaffed
  • 0.4 doctors / 1000 people (UK 2.6)
  • Better in Lagos than rural areas
  • Not always free, long wait times, vaccinations not free
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Education?

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  • All children offered education for 9 years
  • Over 10 universities
  • 95.5% literacy rate compared to 65% for Nigeria as a whole
  • Not enough university places, most secondary schools are private
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Housing?

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  • Many temporary settlements (disliked by government e.g. Makoko, 30,000 poor people evicted in 2017)
  • Over 50% of households lack kitchen, toilet, bath
  • Most people dig wells/boreholes - contaminated
  • 80% of households use polluting diesel generators
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Cars?

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  • Richer = more cars on road
  • 40% of new cars in Nigeria in Lagos = congestion
  • Average commuter 3 hours in traffic / day
  • Most cars are old and create air pollution 5x recommended limit
  • Strain on healthcare
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