Population dynamics and environmental quality in Africa

The nexus of population dynamics and environmental degradation has been discussed widely in the extant literature. Most related studies have utilized carbon emission as a proxy quality. However, does not capture multidimensional nature degradation. To fill this gap, study ecological footprint to because it is more dynamic quality measure. paper examines population-environmental hypothesis for five populous African countries (DR Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa Tanzania) using panel information from 1990 2019. Cross-sectionally Augmented autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) was employed assess relationship among data – per capita (ECFP), growth rate (POPG), density (POPD), urban (URBN), age structure (AGES), GDP (PGDP), energy consumption (ENEC), trade openness (TRAD). findings revealed that POPG, POPD, AGES, PGDP, ENEC TRAD increase Urbanization (URBN) no significant influence on selected countries. concludes with policy prescriptions geared towards addressing expansion improving