Tag: Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey
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NDPC promises to work with gov’t to check food insecurity, unemployment rate
The National Development Planning Commission has pledged its commitment in working with the government to institute policies that will reduce the rate of poverty, food insecurity and unemployment in the country. This follows the release of the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey by the Ghana Statistical Service which showed that 49.1 percent of the…
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About 6.4 million Ghanaians simultaneously food insecure and poor – GSS
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that about 6.4 million Ghanaians are simultaneously food insecure and multidimensionally poor. This represents 20.8 percent of the total population of Ghana. According to the Service’s 2022 Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey, 13.6 million people, 44.1 percent of the population, were found to be multidimensionally poor in…
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Almost 50% of Ghana’s population experiences food insecurity – GSS Survey
Data from the 2022 Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey has revealed that 49.1 percent of the Ghanaian population was food insecure in the first quarter of the year. This represents 15.1 million of the 30.8 million persons in Ghana. The percentage however dropped by 7 percentage points to 42.1 percent in the second quarter;…