Dr Peter Takyi Peprah, the Assistant Chief Statistician and Director of Field Operations, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), says around 57% of the country's populace live in the metropolitan regions.
He said the 2021 Population and Housing Census showed that the metropolitan regions were currently ''splashing'' the tensions from the huge populace.
Dr Peprah expressed this during a virtual conference on family and urbanization coordinated by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Department of Social Welfare, as a feature of exercises to honour the International Day of the Family.
The United Nations General Assembly in 1993 in a goal (A/RES/47/237) embraced the International Day of the Family to be seen on May 15, consistently.
The day is celebrated to recognize the significance of the family and advance attention to issues connecting with families and expand the information on the social, financial, and segment processes influencing families.
The current year's festival on the subject: ''Families and Urbanization" are pointed toward bringing issues to light on the significance of manageable, family-accommodating metropolitan approaches.
Dr Peprah, separating the measurements of populace increment because of movement somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2021 in the portion of the districts, said Greater Accra became by a million followed by Ashanti Region with 200,000, and Western locale inviting 100,000.
Eastern and Ahafo locales, but recorded pessimistic, showing that the number of individuals who moved to the two areas was less when contrasted with quite a while back.
He said practically every one of the locales acquired populace increment with the larger part, moving to the metropolitan regions inside those districts in the country.
As per the Census report, a large portion of individuals who moved to the metropolitan regions was the young with middle age of 29 years, with 53.8 per cent guys and 40.4 per cent females.
It said 47.3 per cent of them had never hitched which by and large impacted middle age at first marriage, middle-age at first birth and absolute richness paces of the country.
Dr Peprah portrayed urbanization as the course of expansion in the populace that was accounted for to live in areas delegated "metropolitan".
He credited the increment of movement from the country to the metropolitan regions to factors, including better positions potential open doors, training possibilities, innovation, accessibility of power, water, further developed transportation framework, and social, social and diversion open doors.
The Director noticed that individuals who moved to the urban communities wound up living in ghettos and at times turned out to be more terrible off than their partners remaining in provincial regions.
Urbanization, he said, offered favourable places for social indecencies, for example, prostitution, equipped burglary, ill-conceived kids and psychological oppression because of financial difficulties and, the making of an insanitary climate.
Mrs Euphemia Akos Dzathor, a Development Practitioner, expressed that savagery inside the family setting could be depicted as any demonstration, or danger of a demonstration that caused physical, mental, close to home, social, financial and sexual torment to one more individual from the family.
She noticed that the peculiarity of force relations was at the base of the multitude of elements that affected abusive behaviour at home since the spouse was viewed as the family's head with unlimited authority per the family structure in the country.
Savagery, she said, could cause uneasiness, despair, and other emotional well-being issues, thus unleashing devastation on the harmony and general prosperity of the family.
Mrs Dzathor required the sensitisation of partners of the family to assume their parts actually for tranquil conjunction.
Teacher Spenser Duncan, an Economic Management Consultant, noticed that as of late, relationships depended on comfort, change, emergency, and impulse, where one goes to a spot and because of a few required reports needed to wed.
He said that relocating from country regions into the metropolitan regions should be foundational and consider pioneers or gatekeepers to direct travellers through the expected cycles to keep them from being abandoned.
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