The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has put the spotlight on Ghana’s rising youth unemployment, describing it as a deepening structural challenge that requires urgent national attention.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament, he cited data from the Ghana Statistical Service showing that youth unemployment continues to worsen across the country.
“In December 2024, the unemployment rate for young Ghanaians aged 15 to 24 stood at 32%. By the third quarter of 2025, that figure had risen to 32.5%,” he said.
He further highlighted that the situation in Greater Accra is even more severe.
“In Greater Accra alone, youth unemployment in Q3 2025 reached 49.3%. Nearly one in every two young people in our capital region is unemployed,” he noted.
He also pointed to the scale of young people outside education and employment.
“The Ghana Statistical Service classifies 1.34 million young people as not in education, employment or training. When we extend the definition to age 35, the figure rises to 1.95 million. Nearly two million young Ghanaians are neither earning nor learning,” he added.
Oppong Nkrumah stressed that the issue can no longer be treated as a secondary concern.
“The unemployment problem in this country is not a general problem with a youth dimension. It is a youth problem, and the burden is getting worse,” he said.
He called for urgent policy attention, insisting that current trends show deterioration rather than improvement
