Implications of Human Capital Flight in the Health Sector on Nigeria’s Life Expectancy (2015-2024)

Introduction: Human capital flight refers to the migration of professionals from one country to another in search of better better opportunities while life expectancy is the average life span of citizens in a givern country. The inability of existing literature to determine the implications of human captial flight in the health sector on life expectancy in Nigeria and the inabiility of government to find solution to the issue of human capital flight in the health sector made it neccessary for the conduct of this study. Method: The study adopted a qualitative technique through the desk content analysis of documents obtained from academic databases (World Health Organizations (WHO), Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and national dailies). Results or Findings: The analysis of research findings indicated that human captial flight in the health sector has impacted negatively on life expectancy in Nigeria due to low budgetary allocation to the sector by sucessive administrations. Discussion or Conclusion: The analysis of result reveals that pain and gain factors are responsible for human capital flight. The paper concludes that increase in budgetary allocaton to 15% has will address the challenges confronting the health sector and improve life expectancy situation in Nigeria.