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Headline data

Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographic location (urban/rural)
Year Value GeoCode
2013 13.6
2017 11.9

Source: Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)

Geographical Area:

Unit of Measurement: Percentage (%)

Footnote: As differences in the cost of living across the world evolve, the international poverty line has to be periodically updated using new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) price data to reflect these changes. The last change was in September 2022, when the World Bank adopted $2.15 as the international poverty line using the 2017 PPP. Prior to that, the 2015 update set the international poverty line at $1.90 using the 2011 PPP.

This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from Ghana statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available from Ghana statistics, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other Ghana-specific metadata information.

Goal

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Target

Target 1.1: By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
Indicator

Indicator 1.1.1: Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line, by sex, age, employment status and geographic location (urban/rural).
Definition and concepts

The ‘International poverty line’ is currently set at $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices. Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measurement of prices in different countries that uses the prices of specific goods to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries’ currencies.
Unit of measure

Percentage (%)
Data sources

Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) Round 6 & Round 7
Data collection method

Survey
Data providers

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Rationale

Monitoring poverty is important on the global development agenda as well as on the national development agenda of many countries. The World Bank produced its first global poverty estimates for developing countries for World Development Report 1990: Poverty (World Bank 1990) using household survey data for 22 countries (Ravallion, Datt, and van de Walle 1991). Since then there has been considerable expansion in the number of countries that field household income and expenditure surveys.

Method of computation

It is calculated by dividing the number of persons living in households below the international poverty line by the total number of persons living in households.
Data availability and disaggregation

This data is disaggregated by regions, sex, urban and rural areas.
References and Documentation

SDG Indicators — SDG Indicators (un.org)
Metadata last updated Mar 29, 2023

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Indicator name

Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographic location (urban/rural)
Indicator number

1.1.1
Target name

By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
UN designated tier

Tier I
UN custodian agency

World Bank (WB), International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Link to UN metadata United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Metadata (PDF 894 KB) opens in a new window
Organisation

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Earliest available data

2013
Geographical coverage

Ghana
Link to data source Ghana Living Standards Survey opens in a new window
Release date Oct 02, 2018
Next release

TBA
Statistical classification

Official
Contact details

info@statsghana.gov.gh
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