GHANA 25,905,000

GHANA
country’s total population (2013) 2
25,905,000
seventy
six
WOMEN, 60+
MEN, 60+
percentage (%) currently married 1
twenty
nine
Photo credit: Climate Change, Agriculture and Food
Security
Photo credit: CIAT International Center for Tropical
Agriculture
“The Government has tried to help us by introducing the LEAP
programme [Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty], at least it
has taken care of some of the problems we face as older people with
regards to money.” —Ghana 1
“Older people are now involved in most decisions in the
community. We now handle issues that we previously took to
the chiefs.” —Ghana 1
5.6
million
percentage (%) of total population aged 60+1
six
11.9
IN 2012
IN 2050
men
64
women 66
AT AGE
60
1
EXPECTANCY (2010–2015)
AT
BIRTH
LIFE
1.5
million
2050
2012
number of older adults aged 60+ 1
men
18
women 19
Poster prepared by: MANSA H. ASAAM, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ARTS, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2
Poster design: Rachel Ines, Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba
References
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) & Help Age International. (2012). Ageing in the Twenty-First
Century: A Celebration and A Challenge. New York, USA; London, UK.
2 United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2013). Profiles of Ageing 2013.
www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/dataset/urban/profilesOfAgeing2013.shtml
3 Pew Research Centre. (2014). Attitudes About Aging: A Global Perspective. USA.
1 United
Photo credits
CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
(creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0)
Ghana flag: clker.com; Africa globe: freepik.com