Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim is expected to announce the country’s official population at the press conference today, 2nd August 2021.
Ghana’s population is estimated to be 31.76 million as of July 31, 2021 based on United Nations latest data.
The statistician recently announced that despite the end of the census, enumeration will continue in some areas, expectiary in Greater Accra Region.
He said, so far, 95 per cent of expected households have been enumerated.
Census Night, Sunday, June 27, was preceded by the listing of structures on Sunday, June 13.
The 2021 PHC will provide important information to support evidence-based implementation of the national development agenda and support the tracking of achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063 of the African Union.
On the challenges being encountered by enumerators, Prof Annim mentioned the inability to meet respondents during daytime due to work related activities; and flooding, which was preventing enumerators from accessing some communities, especially overbank areas.
Others are the discovery of extinct and emerging localities, challenges of synching data, accidents involving field officers, refusal of residents to participate in the exercise due to boundary disputes and disgruntlement with the government or specific public sector agencies.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
