• Ghana: gender parity index in youth literacy

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In 2018, the Gender Parity Index (GPI) in youth literacy in Ghana depicted equality between males and females. This represented an increased GPI of 0.1 percentage points compared to 2000 and 2010 which favored males, both with a GPI of 0.9.

Literacy rate among the population aged 15 to 24 years in Ghana stood at 92.49 percent in 2018.

Gender parity index in youth literacy in Ghana from 2000 to 2018

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Release date

September 2020

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Region

Ghana

Survey time period

2000 to 2018

Supplementary notes

Gender Parity Index (GPI) measures the relative access to education of both males and females.

The source indicates that adult literacy rate is the ratio of females to males from age 15 to 24 who can both read and write as well as understand a short simple statement about their everyday life. It also states that literacy rate is an outcome indicator to measure educational attainment, adding that data on literacy are compiled by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics based on national censuses and household surveys and, for countries without literacy data, by using the Global Age-Specific Literacy Projection Model (GALP).

Ghana's general population and housing census (RGPH) is carried out every 10 years, and the last one was in 2010, as of September 2020. Some statistics may have been compiled using the GALP.