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1.4 million households in urban areas were without water on their premises

One in every four households (27.7%) in urban areas did not have their main source of drinking water on their premises according to the 2021 Populatio

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Almost half of females in rural areas are multidimensionally poor

Almost half (48.2%) of females in rural areas were multidimensionally poor during the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC), almost 20 percentage p

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One in every 10 adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 years have had a live birth

Statistics from the 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) indicate that one in every 10 (10.9%) adolescents aged 15 to 19 years have ever ha

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Ten percent of the illiterate population concentrated in nine of the 261 districts

Data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) indicates that only nine of the 261 districts account for more than a tenth (10.4%) of the 7.9

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Women in Ghana paid 34.2 percent less than men

Data from the first quarter of the 2022 Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) indicates that among paid workers, women earned 34.2%..

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