Ghana adds a total of 700,000 people to its population annually, the Executive Director of the National Population Council (NPC), Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah has disclosed.
According to her, Ghanaians are headed for hardship if necessary measures are not instituted to curb the increasing population growth.
She said many countries have moved on from having population as a human resource to targeting population as a human capital by properly managing it.
Dr Appiah was speaking Tuesday at a forum in Accra to discuss the Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) issues that came up during the recently held Contraceptive Prevalence Data (CPD) session 51 in New York.
The Accra forum which was organised by the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), an NGO, was intended to help influence advocacy work of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to contribute to the needed change in the SRHR sector.
According to her, we cannot make any meaningful progress as a nation without factoring in the subject of population, stressing that population has direct consequences on every policy of a country.
Dr Appiah was of the view that many people vote out governments for new ones because they want their lives to improve, explaining that there cannot be any better lives or improved standards of living if the country’s growing population is left unattended to.
The Executive Director of PPAG, Abena Acheampong expressed concern that the country risks many challenges ahead if the current population growth rate is not tackled.
She was of the opinion that the decision by the government to introduce the double track system for Senior High School (SHS) students is partly due to the unplanned population of the country.
Madam Acheampong said a huge population does not guarantee quality life and that those advocating for population growth should rethink their position.
“People are moving from one place to another because the conditions there is not good. And then they come in here and it is no better,” she said, adding “We need to invest in the quality of life rather than expanding.”
Source: Graphic.com
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THE EVIL NDC FROM RAWLINGS TO MAHAMA HAVE ALWAYS USED ILLEGAL ALIENS TO ACHIEVE ELECTORAL ADVANTAGE. OUR BORDERS HAVE SO POROUS THAT EVEN FULANIS AND THEIR HERDS OF CATTLE HAVE BEEN POURING INTO GHANA LIKE A BREACHED DAM. IT THEREFORE COMES AS NO SURPRISE THAT AN ESTIMATED WHOPPING 700,000 PEOPLE ARE ADDED TO A SMALL COUNTRY LIKE GHANA'S POPULATION ANNUALLY. THIS NOT SUSTAINABLE AND UNTHINKABLE! ALL MEASURES MUST BE PUT IN PLACE TO CURTAIL THIS WAITING TIME BOMB. BIRTH CONTROL IS THE KEY AND ALL HINDRANCES LIKE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OR PRACTICES MUST BE IGNORED IF WE ARE TO WIN THIS UNSUSTAINABLE POPULATION EXPLOSION!!!
Ghana will soon overtake china. Women in slums are producing babies like rats
eh 700,000 paa. this is a pretty high growth rate if the numbers are true. I do however doubt this number.
so for akuffo addo to remain president, a position he was prepared to Killl for and sold family property to get, fish must be rationed, banks must be few or forcefully shut down, water must be rationed, no hunting or fishing, no mining unless you are chinese or newmont, and now he wants to ration human beings too. all these talks of population growth being costly to government is just poor thinking at work. why didn't she mention the number who die annually because there are no beds in hospital, NHIS not working, road accidents as nana hasn't built any, death from poor sanitation since kofi adda did nothing but was paid, murdders by Delta Force, Invinsible Forces, Kandahar Boys and other NPP killing machines?? why doesn't she tell us the number of deaths from these and is Simply obsessed with annual birth rate?? in any case was this not the birth rate when incompetent mahama was running the country ???
And there are NO plans for all these ***barred word*** either from their parents or the government.