Two population experts have stressed the need for Ghana to reduce its population growth rate to a sustainable level to ensure sustainable socio-economic development.
The National Population Council (NPC) said the annual addition of 700,000 to Ghana’s population posed a huge challenge to development, ensuring quality of life for the population and some national policies such as the Ghana beyond aid.
The experts including the Executive Director of the National Population Council, Dr Leticia Appiah, were speaking at a press briefing marking the beginning of a weeklong activity towards the commemoration of this year’s World Population day in Accra Thursday.
Instituted by the United Nations Governing Council in 1989 and marked every July 11, World Population Day (WPD) to focus global attention on the urgency and importance of population issues to global, national and human development.
The commemoration calls for critical analysis of relevant population and its related issues that supports or hinder accelerated socio-economic development for national attention and action.
The global theme for this year’s commemoration is “A world of 8 billion: towards a resilient future for all, harnessing opportunities and ensuring rights and choices” while the national commemoration is on the theme “Prioritising rights and choices; harnessing opportunities, the road to a resilient future for all.”
Other local activities will include public forums on demystifying family planning and contraceptive use among others.
