Top 5 Social Problems of Ghana according to Ghanaian Children – Survey

The Child Rights International 2021 survey report has revealed the top 5 Social Problems of Ghana, according to Ghanaian children between the ages of 12 and 17.

The findings paint a clear picture of the perception of children about their motherland which needs to be worked on to prepare and hand over to them a more a better nation with opportunities that posterity will be proud of.

According to the results of the survey that say  11,288 take part, 66% of the children believe unemployment is a major social problem that demands government attention.

In the same survey, 42% of the respondents hold the view that there is a high level of poverty in the country. In an attempt to test the corruption perception of the children, 36% of them feel there is a high level of corruption in the country.

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Streetism and poor education follow in that order with 36% and 29% respectively as the 4th and 5th top  Social Problems of Ghana according to the children.

These challenges identified need to be given critical national attention because 555 of these children aged between 12 and 17 years prefer to exit the country for greener pastures by 2040. Failure of the nation to deal with these concerns may cause brain drain in the next 20 years. The reasons why they want to travel out of the country is to seek better education and standards of living in other countries.

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The top priorities of children for government to increase spending are Employment creation (77%), Investment in quality education (50%), Social protection systems (50%), Infrastructure (37%), Agriculture development (36%), and Security (22%). The government of Ghana needs and political actors need to take the findings in the report seriously and consider them in planning for the nation and the country’s children who are the future leaders of the nation.