According to the most recent Afrobarometer study, the majority of Ghanaians have lost faith in the country's economy and half of them are concerned about the worst.
A whopping 87% of Ghanaians stated their country's economy was "going in the wrong path," and 50% believed things would only become worse over the course of the following year.
In contrast, 25% of respondents thought the economy would improve significantly in a year, and 11% said the nation was moving in the right direction. These results were from the Afrobarometer survey's Round 9, which sampled the opinions of 2,400 adults from all 16 regions.
The sample was dispersed throughout the regions in accordance with their proportion of the total population.
Respondents were randomly chosen for in-person interviews in the language of their choosing during the fieldwork period of April 4–April 20, 2022.
The results showed that 85% of respondents thought the current economic situation was fair to very poor, and 72% said the same about their own circumstances.
In the meanwhile, 70% of respondents, as opposed to 20% who believe differently, have noticed that the economy has gotten worse during the last 12 months.
Only 18% of respondents believe that the government has done reasonably or very well, compared to 71% in 2017 and 51% in 2019. Roughly 49% of respondents believe that managing the economy is the most crucial issue that the government must address in the nation.
According to the research, respondents want the government to make economic management, unemployment, and infrastructure the top three national policy goals.
According to a research on poverty, respondents' low/no lived poverty levels steadily declined from 81% in 2017 to 67% in 2022, while their moderate/high lived poverty levels steadily rose from 19% in 2017 to 33% in 2022. Before Ghana joined its final International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme in 2015, a large majority of respondents last stated that the nation was headed in the wrong way in 2014.
The Government is moving in the wrong way, according to almost 85% of respondents, compared to 15% in the round 6 survey.
Since 1999, eight survey rounds have been completed in as many as 39 African nations, and the ninth round of surveys is now being conducted there.
By offering stakeholders access to high-quality public opinion data, the survey aims to provide the general public a voice in the creation of policies.
An authoritative source of information on Africans' experiences with and opinions on democracy is the pan-African, non-partisan, nonprofit survey research network known as Afrobarometer.
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