GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 2025198Economy Pro file GhanaScore 0.703Rank 88thPage 2 of 2 Complementary Targets and Contextual Indicators 2025 General indicators Indicatr Unit Value GDP US$ billions 76.37 GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 6.80 Population sex ratio female/male, % 50.05 Population growth rate % 1.91 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Total population 16.91 16.88 33.79 Work participation and leadershipIndicatr Unit Value Gender wage gap % n. a. Share of women's membership in boards % n. a. Firms with female majority ownership % firms 16.80 Firms with female top managers % firms 19.80 Indicatr 1-7 (best) Value Advancement of women to leadership roles 4.90 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Labour-force 5.29 4.35 9.64 Indicatr Unit Female Male Value Share of workers in informal sector % workers 78.79 77.21 78.05 Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14 64) 3.24 2.71 3.00 Workers employed part-time % of employed people 53.88 43./g203 49.29 Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work % n. a. n. a. n. a. Access to finance Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to financial services Equal rights Inheritance rights for widows and daughters Uneven rights Access to land assets Equal rights Access to non-land assets Near-equal rights Ci.g57il and political .g47reedom Indicatr Unit Value Year women received right to vote year 1954 Number of female heads of state to date n/g5Cmber n. a. Seats held in upper house % total seats n. a. Indicatr Yess Value Election list quotas for women, national Yes Party membership quotas, voluntary n. a. Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to justice Near-equal rights Freedom of movement Equal rightsFamily and careIndicatr Unit Value Unmet family planning % women 1/g1C/g144/g20 23.40 Early marriage % 7.30 Mean age of women at birth of first child years n. a. Indicatr Equal rights Value Right to divorce Restricted rights Indicatr Shared days Female Male Value Length of paid parental leave 84 0 0 Education and skills Graduates % Female Male Value STEM 7.54 25.18 16.58 Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary 0.86 2./g207 1.94 Arts & Humanities 6.01 6.14 6.08 Business, Admin. & Law 22.35 22.11 22.23 Education 24.86 26.31 25.61 Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction 2.97 11.44 7.31 Health & Welfare 30.88 11.76 21.09 Information & hgk omm. Technologies 1.66 7./g206 4.89 Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics 2.90 5.77 4.37 Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information 4.33 4.76 4.55 Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity Vocational training 0.76 2.16 1.47 PhD graduates 0.04 0.0/g20 0.06 Graduates from tertiary education 0.76 2.16 1.47 Health Indicatr Unit Value Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 24.00 Births attended by skilled personnel % live births 78.90 Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 234.00 Total fertility rate births per woman 3.40 Indicatr Equal rights Value Reproductive autonomy Uneven rights *Scores are on a 0 to 1 scale, where 1 represents the optimal situation or “parity ”. Please see Appendix A and B for detailed methodology, de finitions, sources and periods. **For all indicators, except the two health indicators, parity is benchmarked at 1. In the case of sex ratio at birth, the gender parity benchmark is set at 0.944 hgFsee hglklasen and Wink, 2003hgji. In the case of healthy life expectancy the gender parity benchmark is set at 1.06, given women's longer life expectancy.Global Gender Gap Report 2025 198