Poverty Headcount / Ghana
Ghana Poverty Headcount
Ghana poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 23.40%.
COUNTRY: Ghana
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Ghana · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
47 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
2.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
13.0 / 15
Financial robustness
5.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
2.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Ghana · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
23.40%
Previous
24.20%
Range avg.
34.14%
Rank
24
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CountryGhana
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
23.40%2016 · Rank 24
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Ghana recorded 23.40% for Poverty Headcount in 2016, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2012, the indicator decreased by 0.80 percentage points, from 24.20% to 23.40%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 5 available observations (34.14%).
Across the five latest available observations (1991–2016), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 5 available observations, the low was 23.40% in 2016 and the high was 51.70% in 1991.
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