The study specifically determined the effects of fertility and infant mortality rates on the economic growth from 1980 to 2010. It used annual secondary data on infant mortality rate, fertility rate, and openness from World Development Indicators; government expenditure, saving and real Gross Domestic Product from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletins; and primary school enrolment from various issues of the Annual Abstract of Statistics by National Bureau of Statistics. The data were analyzed using Vector Auto Regressive econometric techniques. The results showed that decrease in fertility rate increased economic growth rate gradually from 3.3% to 7.9% for the horizon of 12 years.
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