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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Is population an asset or a liability to Nigeria’s economic growth? Evidence from FM-OLS and ARDL approach to cointegration

 

Measurements

Mean

SD

Kurtosis

Skewness

Max

Min

gdp

GDP (constant 2010 US$)

2.35E+11

1.25E+11

2.053

0.764

4.69E+11

1.08E+11

gdpg

GDP growth

3.175

5.538

4.539

− 0.870

15.329

− 13.128

gdppc

GDP per capita (constant 2010 US$)

1758.6

439.9

1.831

0.656

2563.9

1324.3

gdppcg

GDP per capita growth

0.545

5.394

4.605

− 0.878

12.457

− 15.450

popg

Population growth

2.582

0.068

1.706

0.086

2.710

2.489

gfcf

Gross fixed capital formation (% of GDP)

36.220

19.572

3.621

0.987

89.386

14.169

topen

Total trade (% of GDP)

32.258

12.565

2.192

− 0.354

53.278

9.136

gcon

Government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP)

3.692

2.872

2.177

0.833

9.448

0.911

  1. Total number of observation is 38
  2. GDP gross domestic product, SD standard deviation, Max. maximum, Min. minimum