{"id":1214618,"date":"2022-10-01T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/01\/one-quarter-of-the-elderly-in-ghana-are-multidimensionally-poor\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:26:00","slug":"one-quarter-of-the-elderly-in-ghana-are-multidimensionally-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/01\/one-quarter-of-the-elderly-in-ghana-are-multidimensionally-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"One-quarter of the elderly in Ghana are multidimensionally poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that the elderly population has increased almost 10 times in the past six decades from a little over 200,000 (213,477) in 1960 to almost 2 million (1,991,736) in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>GSS, in a statement to mark the International Day of Older Persons, shared its findings which reveal that the elderly population (60 years and above) comprises 861,830 (43.3%) males and 1,129,906 (56.7%) females.<\/p>\n<p>The report further indicates that 341,960 elderly persons are living alone, with 62,480 out of that number being 80 years and older.<\/p>\n<p>The findings also indicated that one out of every four (25.7%) elderly persons is multi-dimensionally poor, slightly lower than what prevails in the total population (29.9%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incidence of multidimensional poverty among the elderly ranges from 8.8% in the Greater Accra Region to 53.0% in the Savannah Region. A little over a third (37.5%) of the elderly population is employed \u2013 five in every 10 (50.0%) for the age group 60 to 69 years, about three in every 10 (28.6%) for the age group 70 to 79 years, and one in every 10 (10.7%) for the age group 80 years and older.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNine out of every 10 (90.1%) employed elderly persons are working in the private informal sector with eight out of every ten (80.0%) being self-employed without employees. Nationally, 395,693 older persons representing over half (53.2%) of the employed elderly population are in vulnerable employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GSS called for an assessment of Ghana\u2019s preparedness to safeguard the well-being of the growing numbers of older persons in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"xISaJhLFpr8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GSS\u2019 Multi-dimensional Poverty Index Report paints gloomy picture of poverty levels\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xISaJhLFpr8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that the elderly population has increased almost 10 times in the past six decades from a little over 200,000 (213,477) in 1960 to almost 2 million (1,991,736) in 2021. GSS, in a statement to mark the International Day of Older Persons, shared its findings which reveal that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}