Ghana said it had made progress in curbing poverty amid an improvement in households’ conditions of nutrition and education, although inequality remained a persistent problem.
A multidimensional poverty index for the West African nation declined to 21.9% at the end of the third quarter of last year from 24.9% in the final quarter of 2024, Ghana Statistical Service said in a report on Wednesday.
That still left around 7 million people in poverty, it said, roughly one million less than at the end of 2024.
The measure tracks worsening states of living, employment, health and education using 13 indicators, the statistics agency said. It is different from monetary poverty, which measures the proportion of the population living on less than $1 a day, which stood at 23.4% when measured in 2016-17, it said.
Lack of nutrition improved to 10.6% in the three months through September 2025, down from 13.3% from the same period the year before, the agency said. Schooling lag dropped to 3.9% from 15.3%, lack of housing improved to 14.5% from 16.1% while drinking water deprivation improved to 6.3% from 8%.
Indicators that worsened during the period were lack of proper cooking fuel, which rose to 8.4% from 8%, while overcrowding in homes almost doubled to 21.6%.
Lack of nutrition improved to 10.6% in the three months through September 2025, down from 13.3% from the same period the year before, the agency said. Schooling lag dropped to 3.9% from 15.3%, lack of housing improved to 14.5% from 16.1% while drinking water deprivation improved to 6.3% from 8%.
