Number of people living in extreme poverty in Ghana 2016-2025
As of 2023, nearly three million people in Ghana lived in extreme poverty, with the poverty threshold at 1.90 U.S. dollars a day. This stood as a decrease from the previous year, when over three million people lived in the said state of poverty. The headcount was expected to keep the declining trend by 2025, when around 2.8 million Ghanaians might live on a maximum of 1.90 U.S. dollars per day.