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Ghana’s Poverty Eases as Nutrition and Education Improve

Plastic waste and garbage in front of informal housing and buildings on the shoreline of Jamestown beach in Accra, Ghana, in 2022.Photographer: Nipah Dennis/Bloomberg

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By Moses Mozart Dzawu

January 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM UTC

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.