Professor Peter Quartey, the Director, Institute of Statistical, Social and Financial Analysis (ISSER), College of Ghana, mentioned Ghana must increase her sources to fulfill the rising inhabitants wants for sustainable development.
He mentioned inhabitants development got here with calls for for infrastructural improvement like hospitals, colleges, and roads to deal with the inequality hole, particularly in areas with greater development.
Prof. Quartey mentioned this in an interview with the Ghana Information Company in Accra on the provisional outcomes of the 2021 Inhabitants and Housing Census, which put the nation’s development price at 2.1 per cent.
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, launched the nation’s provisional inhabitants determine of 30.8 million, which confirmed a rise of 6.1 million folks from the 2010 inhabitants figures of 24.6 million.
The 2021 census constituted an annual inter-censal development price of two.1 per cent in comparison with 2.5 per cent within the 2010 census.
The inhabitants change, in keeping with the discharge, was pushed by three processes – fertility, mortality and migration.
Prof. Quartey mentioned it was advisable that the inhabitants development price was moderated as a result of the 2010 development price of two.5 per cent meant that the nation’s livelihood didn’t enhance a lot.
The 2021 inhabitants price, he mentioned, meant that the nation wanted to seek out extra sources to extend its financial resilience and that must be finished strategically.
The Better Accra, in keeping with the 2021 Census, is now probably the most populous area within the nation with 5,446,237 figures, adopted by Ashanti Area with 5,432,485.
Prof. Quartey mentioned with Accra main the regional inhabitants figures meant authorities wanted to deal with the rural-urban migration challenges, which regularly led to congestion, crimes and different social vices.
He urged authorities to decentralise governance in order that jobs and different sources can be pretty distributed to open up the areas and communities for development.
Prof. Quartey known as for the technology of quarterly information for unemployment and Gross Home Product for strategic quick and long run planning.
The 2021 Census supplied essential data to assist evidence-based implementation of the nationwide improvement agenda, monitoring of achievements of the Sustainable Growth Targets, and Agenda 2063 of the African Union. GNA
