Why the population growth rate Will increase of Ghana?

Answer 1

Section 39 (Population and Development)

Title: Rapid Population Growth and Development in Ghana

Author: Eric Adjei Boadu

Population Impact Project

Department f Geography & Resource Development

P. O. Box 59

University of Ghana

Legon-Accra

Ghana

Tel: 00 233 21 500796

Fax: 233 21 500310

E-mail: Ericca98@hotmail.com

Ghana's Demographic and Health Surveys 1988 and 1993, and Ghana's 1984

Population Census report were used to examine the effect of rapid population

growth on 4 key sectors in Ghana. The population issue in Ghana concerns the

high rate of growth and not the number of people. The rapidly increasing

expenditure on education is associated with sharp increases in the proportion of

eligible children attending school. Repeated pregnancies and births affect health

conditions of child and mother while more people produce more waste causing

additional stress on earth's assimilative capacity. Three population projections

were prepared using the Spectrum Computer Package from 1990-2020, each

based on high, medium and low fertility and mortality assumptions as enumerated

in Ghana's National Population Policy. If fertility declines as assumed in the low

fertility assumption, the population of Ghana will be 30.7 million by the year

2020, with the medium assumption, total population will be 33.6 million.

However, with the high assumption, Ghana's population will reach 35.2 million

by 2020. These three population projections were subsequently employed to

highlight the impact of population on Ghana's Economic, Education, Health, and

Environment sectors.

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RAPID POPULATION GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA

ERIC ADJEI BOADU

1 INTRODUCTION

There is a growing consensus in Ghana that while rapid population

growth may not prevent economic growth, economic improvements will occur

more rapidly without this obstacle. A slower rate of population growth will ensure

that more people will have better access to health care and social amenities

(Population Impact Project, 1994).

It must be emphasized that the population issue in Ghana concerns the

high growth rate of about 2.9% and not the number of people. In terms of absolute

numbers, Ghana cannot be considered as over populated. The United Kingdom

for example with about the same land area as Ghana (UK is 93,283 sq. miles and

Ghana 87,853 sq. miles) has more than three times Ghana's population (UK 59.1

million, Ghana 18.9 million, World Population Data Sheet 1998).

In Ghana, the warning that rapid population growth could be an

obstacle to development was not taken seriously by the previous governments.

There was large influx of foreign nationals, particularly those from sister African

countries. This was confirmed in the 1960 population census in which 12.3% of

the population was estimated to be foreigners. This situation persisted until 1969

when the issues of population was recognised as a critical factor in development

by the intellectuals as well as the political leaders of this country. Ghana then

became the third country in Sub-Saharan Africa to come out with a

comprehensive population policy in 1969 after Mauritius (1958) and Kenya

(1967). The policy was meant to affect the growth, structure or distribution of the

country's growing population.

Rapid Population growth means higher dependency burden which forces

the young population to work to supplement the family income. It also creates

social pressures on the government to spend more on the welfare of the people in

order to maintain a minimum standard of living.

Education occupies a highly important place in most plans for socioeconomic

development. In Ghana, the sector is important as a supplier of the

trained manpower that is a prerequisite for the accomplishment of other

development goals. The rapidly increasing expenditure on education has been

associated with sharp increases in the proportion of eligible children attending

school. Upgrading the country's human resources through

Answer 2

Because poor people always make more children than normal or rich people, because they want to have as many kids as possible to feed them when they are too old to survive themselves. This is selfish, since certainly not all their children die in young age and they will have many children which will make many more children themselves and the population growth of third world countries will increase astronomically. This is a very bad thing to the world, since there is already way too many people in it. There is not enough food for everyone. People should stop making children for a while.

Also poor people don't have anything else to do than have sex, which is sad. And they know nothing about prevention or birth control. And poor people are very uneducated and superstitious and they believe any kind of fool stories, which tell for example that having sex with a virgin cures aids, which is completely rubbish. Then they rape younger and younger children and spread their aids to them too. And younger and younger girls will become pregnant. Pregnant girls in third world countries don't have any other choices than become wives for men (possibly to them who have raped them) and produce as many children they can.

That's the sad story about population growth in third world countries. Something should be done with it, and quickly. But my Biology teacher was teaching prevention in Africa some years ago, and he showed the men how to use a condom, he used a stick to demonstrate. Then the following night all the men of the village took their condoms and put them on sticks in front of their huts while copulating.

Such stupidity it's unbelievable. No wonder things don't progress there.

Answer 3

Because these farmers and herders could produse plenty of food, the population of Ghana increased

Answer 4

1.High Birth Rate

2.low Death Rate