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Ghana’s inflation has soared again to hit 27.6 percent in the month of May 2022. This represents a four percentage points increase in the inflation rate compared to the 23.6 percent recorded in April 2022. Increase in transport fares and surging food prices pushed the rate of inflation in May …

1.5 million out of the 11.5 million active Ghanaian labour force are unemployed, the 2022 Population and Housing Census conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service has revealed. This translates into 13.4% of jobless Ghanaians. About half a million out of the unemployed are persons who are 15 years and older, …

The month of November 2021 recorded the highest rate of inflation of 12.2% since the rebasing of the Consumer Price Index was done in 2019, the Ghana Statistical Service has indicated. This indicates that prices of goods and services witnessed upward adjustment during the period, a situation that will push …

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced on Wednesday that provisional results from the 2021 Population and Housing Census indicate that Ghana’s population is now 30.8 million. Speaking at a press conference in Accra, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, said the provisional results show that Ghana’s population has …

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has extended the deadline for the 2021 Population and Housing Census to Sunday, July 18. This will allow enumerators complete work in the outstanding enumeration areas. The exercise, which started on Monday, June 28, was expected to end today, July 11, 2021, in all sixteen …

Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim has reminded all persons resident in Ghana, who intend to abstain from the census exercise, that they could could be fined or imprisoned. According to him, the Ghana Statistical Service has been made aware of persons in some areas who have decided to decline …

The Ghana Statistical Service has held a colourful census night to mark the official start of the 2021 Population and Housing Census.   The census night fell on Sunday, June 27, 2021.         In the Korle Klottey Municipality of the Greater Accra Region for instance, there was …

The year-on-year inflation for May 2020 – May 2021 was 7.5%, the Ghana statistical Service (GSS) has announced on Wednesday June 9 The month-on-month – April 2021 – May 2021 – inflation was 0.8%. Year-on-year variation between food (5.4%) and non-food inflation (9.2%) was 3.8%. Month-on-month food inflation exceeds non-food …