The Quarterly Multidimensional Poverty Report (2024Q1-2025 Q3) report by the Ghana Statistical Service has made interesting revelations to the effect that Households headed by persons living together or in informal unions recorded the highest poverty incidence (33.1%) in Q3 2025.
The report said poverty has however, declined among divorced and separated household heads, but widowed and never-married heads saw increases.
The MPI by type of difficulties in performing activities of Head of Household indicated that Poverty incidence is consistently highest among household heads reporting “a lot of difficulty” across all domains – especially hearing (43.0%) and intellectual difficulties (33.6%) in Q3, meanwhile, Households headed by persons with no reported difficulty recorded poverty levels below 25%.
The report submitted by Dr. Alhassan Iddrisu, the Government Statistician also noted that The population 15 years and older who suffered triple burden in food insecurity, unemployment and multidimensional poverty increased marginally from 208,000 (1.4%) in Q2 2025 to 227,500 (1.5%) in Q3 2025.
“The population 15 years and older who were employed, not multidimensionally poor and food secure increased from 7.1 million (46.2%) to 7.7 million (48.2%) indicating modest welfare gains between Q2 2025 and Q3 2025”, he added.
