According to the Ghana Statistics Service’s most recent labour statistics report, over a quarter of the population aged 15 to 35 years, or 2.5 million people, were not in employment, education, or training by the third quarter of 2022.
According to the research, the Savannah (27.8%), North East (24.3%), and Upper East (24.2%) had the highest rates of such instances in the third quarter.
Furthermore, the number of unemployed and food insecure people fell by 60,000 between the first and third quarters, while the number of unemployed and multidimensionally poor people remained relatively constant, at around 615,000 on average across the three quarters.
According to the survey, the number of NEETs dropped with age, with the biggest number of NEETs among adolescents aged 15 to 35 years peaking at age 21.
Furthermore, the number of unemployed, food insecure, and multidimensionally poor people fell by 78,000 between the first and second quarters but rose by nearly 55,000 in the third.
