Ghana: health insurance coverage by region 2021

As of 2021, Ghana's Ashanti region had more people insured under a health insurance scheme, compared to the other regions. The region registered approximately 3.9 million inhabitants covered under private or national health insurance. The Greater Accra and Eastern regions followed with over 3.2 million and 2.1 million people who had health insurance coverage, respectively.

Population covered by health insurance in Ghana as of 2021, by region

Characteristic	Number of people
Ashanti	3,903,961
Greater Accra	3,279,444
Eastern	2,145,892
Central	1,655,259
Northern	1,494,698
Western	1,308,056
Volta	1,123,690
Upper East	1,121,934
Bono	1,033,765
Bono East	942,905
Upper West	753,732
Western North	654,160
North East	496,072
Ahafo	440,217
Savannah	415,508
Oti	387,964

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2021

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Ghana

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

According to the source, an insured person refers to "a paid-up member in a health insurance scheme".
It adds: "An insured person may be covered under National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) or private health insurance schemes".

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