Ghana: employees in agriculture 2008-2020

In the period from 2008 to 2020, there was a notable decrease in the share of employees working in the agricultural sector in Ghana for both genders. While there were generally more men than women employed in agriculture, the disparity became more apparent in the latter years. By 2020, the share of women employed decreased by over 27 percentage points (from 48.57 percent to 21.25 percent), while the share of men only decreased by almost 22 percentage points (from 56.37 percent to 34.69 percent).

Share of employees in the agricultural sector in Ghana from 2008 to 2020, by gender

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Release date

December 2020

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Region

Ghana

Survey time period

2008 to 2020

Supplementary notes

The source defined employment as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. It added that the agriculture sector consisted of activities in agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing, in accordance with division 1 (ISIC 2) or categories A-B (ISIC 3) or category A (ISIC 4).

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