Ghana

Northern Ghana
population 2,479,461

Economic characteristics

Economically active adults:

Agriculture, hunting, and forestry are the main economic activities in the region. Together, they account
for the employment of 71.2 per cent of the economically active population, aged 15 years and older. Less
than a tenth (7.0%) of the economically active people in the region are unemployed.

Non-economically active adults:

Majority, (40.5%) of the 251,221 not economically active are homemakers and just under a quarter
(24.4%) are students. Those who are not working because of old age constitute 14.8 per cent. A small
proportion is not working because of disability (2.2%) or are pensioners who are on retirement (1.2%)
while 16.9 per cent are classified as others. These rates relate to the 10-year period preceding the surveys.

Greater Accra
population 2,905,726

Economic Characteristics

Economically active adults:

In a population of 1,945,284 persons aged 15 years and older, 1,377,903 or 70.8 per cent are economically
active. Among the economically active population, 82.6 per cent had worked, 4.0 per cent had jobs but did
not work and 13.4 per cent are unemployed. The occupational structure of the region shows that 42.0 per
cent of the economically active population were engaged in sales and service occupations, while
professional, technical and related workers comprise 10.8 percent.

Non-economically active adults:

No information available.

Jobs by gender:
The three largest occupational groups among males are production, transport operators and related
workers (29.6%), sales workers (19.4%), and clerical and related workers (14.4%), compared with 42.0 per
cent of females in sales occupation, 19.5 per cent in production, transport and equipment, and 13.9 per
cent in service occupations. The industrial sector is dominated by wholesale and retail trade (30.4%) and
manufacturing (16.7%).

Tasks
1. Split the above information into bullet points to make it more readable.
2. Produce two pie charts, one for the Northern Region and one for Greater Accra, showing
occupations. Where there is not information on occupation, label the sector as economically active
other or non-economically active other.
3. Make a bar graph showing occupation by gender for Greater Accra.
4. Collect 6 pictures from Google images about the Northern Region of Ghana and 6 pictures of
Greater Accra, which give you information about people’s lives in the area. Comment briefly on
what each one shows you.