Majority of Ghanaian youth most likely to emigrate to America – Afrobarometer survey

The survey also reveals the age group with the most likelihood of emigrating out of the country are between 18-35 years followed by those within the age bracket of 36-55.

North America was closely followed by Europe in the ranking of likely destination for the youth with desire to emigrate out of the country.

The situation is not too different from the data collected from 8 other African countries; Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Mali, Zambia, and Zimbabwe which indicate majority of people considering emigration are youth.

Search for jobs and quest to move away from economic hardship and poverty top the list of possible reasons including travel and tourism, education and business prospects, among others for which people were willing to emigrate.

4% of Ghanaian emigrants were willing to move to other parts of the continent while 10% of African emigrants averaged out of the 9 countries were willing to move to other parts of the continent.

The survey is an extract from Afrobarometer’s current round of nationally representative surveys to be completed by mid-2018 which explores migration intentions and drivers in 35 African countries







This comes at a time when US Government has hinted at deporting close to 7000 Ghanaians illegally living in the US.

Ghana is also at risk of being sanctioned by the US with visa restrictions in accordance with its laws as a responsibility owed the American people.

There have also been several media reports of dehumanising acts perpetrated by some militia and migrants on fellow emigrants transiting Libya.

Below is the link to the details of the Afrobarometer survey

http://afrobarometer.org/blogs/african-migration-whos-thinking-going-where