{"id":205366,"date":"2025-08-24T05:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-population-hits-33-7m-policy-makers-urged-to-turn-it-into-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:41:59","slug":"ghanas-population-hits-33-7m-policy-makers-urged-to-turn-it-into-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-population-hits-33-7m-policy-makers-urged-to-turn-it-into-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Population Hits 33.7m&#8230; Policy Makers Urged to Turn It Into Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Ghana&#8217;s population is now projected at 33.7million, representing a 9.4 percentage increase from the 2021 census figure of 30.8million, a professor at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Stephen Owusu Kwankye, has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">With the population surpassing the 33 million mark, Professor Kwankye has called on policy makers to explore ways of turning it into opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He said this development presented both opportunities and challenges for the nation&#8217;s growth,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210641.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s population is now projected at 33.7million, representing a 9.4 percentage increase from the 2021 census figure of 30.8million, a professor at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Stephen Owusu Kwankye, has said. With the population surpassing the 33 million mark, Professor Kwankye has called on policy makers to explore ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[52188,258,256,4509,8226,7111,14804,257,13281,6470,10311,254,7101,6206],"class_list":["post-205366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-33-7m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-hits","tag-makers","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-policy","tag-population","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turn","tag-urged"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}