{"id":190371,"date":"2024-06-18T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/18\/ghanas-youth-unemployment-remains-high-at-7-16-afdb\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:55:17","slug":"ghanas-youth-unemployment-remains-high-at-7-16-afdb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/18\/ghanas-youth-unemployment-remains-high-at-7-16-afdb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s youth unemployment remains high at 7.16% \u2013 AfDB \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s youth unemployment remained high at 7.16% in 2023, particularly among youths between the ages of 15 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>According to the updated 2024 Africa Economic Outlook by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), the unemployment was also high among women compared with men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultidimensional poverty worsened slightly, from 46% in 2017 to 46.7% in 2022, due to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Youth unemployment remains high at 7.16%, particularly among youths ages 15\u201324, especially women (36.7% compared with 29.3% among<\/p>\n<p>men).<\/p>\n<p>The report further revealed that the youth unemployment in the country was rising.<\/p>\n<p>It therefore called for reinforcement of Ghana\u2019s structural transformation needs.<\/p>\n<p>Productivity has stagnated in services, the dominant employment sector, and is rising only slowly in industry and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Agriculture\u2019s employment share declined from 53.9% in 2007 to 29.8% in 2019, while industry\u2019s share rose from 14.1% to 21.0.<\/p>\n<p>The services\u2019 sector share also rose from 31.9% to 49.2% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>To fast-track the structural transformation, the report said Ghana must enhance its competitiveness by easing infrastructure bottlenecks; accelerate agro-industrialization by strengthening skills development, value addition, and private sector development.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it must create a policy framework for technology adoption and innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a>Joy Business<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s youth unemployment remained high at 7.16% in 2023, particularly among youths between the ages of 15 and 24. According to the updated 2024 Africa Economic Outlook by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), the unemployment was also high among women compared with men. \u201cMultidimensional poverty worsened slightly, from 46% in 2017 to 46.7% in 2022, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana\u2019s youth unemployment remains high at 7.16% \u2013 AfDB \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/18\/ghanas-youth-unemployment-remains-high-at-7-16-afdb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghana\u2019s youth unemployment remains high at 7.16% \u2013 AfDB \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghana\u2019s youth unemployment remained high at 7.16% in 2023, particularly among youths between the ages of 15 and 24. 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