Ghana’s Human Development Index ranking improves
But that is an improvement over last year’s position of 142.
According to the report, the country shared the position with Southern African country, Eswatini [Swaziland].
Between 1990 and 2019, Ghana’s Human Development Index value increased by 31.4%.
Also, the Gross National Income per capita increased by about 127.6% during the same period.
During the period between 1990 and 2019, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Sao Tome and Principe experienced different degrees of progress toward increasing their Human Development Indices.
From Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana is compared with Cameroon and Kenya, which have Human Development Indices ranked 153 and 143rd respectively.
Interestingly, 55.7% of adult women have reached at least a secondary level of education in the country compared to 71.6% of their male counterparts.