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The Ghana Statistical Service has highlighted variations in the progress on Sustainable Development Goal 5 which aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls). The statistics are generated from the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (GDHS).. The percentage of ever-partnered females 15 to 49 years subjected to physical, sexual, or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months declined by 5.2 percentage points in the 14 years between the 2008 GDHS1 (33.6%) and the 2022 (28.4%). The largest decline was recorded for females with secondary (-7.0 percentage points) and higher (-4.7 percentage points) education. Females with no education and primary education recorded an increase in the percentage experiencing intimate partner violence in the previous 12 months by 1.9 and 0.2 percentage points respectively. Intimate partner violence declined in both types of localities with a higher decline in urban (-8.9 percentage points) relative to rural (-1.4 percentage points).