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Table 1 Summary of poverty incidence in Ghana

From: Health and vulnerability to poverty in Ghana: evidence from the Ghana Living Standards Survey Round 5

 

1991/92

1998/99

2005/06

National poverty

51.7

39.5

28.5

Rural

64

50

39

Urban (Accra)

23

4

11

Administrative regions

Western

59.6

27.3

18.4

Central

44.3

48.4

19.9

Greater Accra

25.8

5.2

11.8

Volta

57.0

37.7

31.4

Eastern

48.0

43.7

15.1

Ashanti

41.2

27.7

20.3

Brong Ahafo

65.0

35.8

29.5

Northern

63.4

69.2

52.3

Upper East

66.9

88.2

70.4

Upper West

88.4

83.9

87.9

  1. Source: Ghana statistical service (2007).