Despite this poverty remains an issue with 23% of the urban population living below the poverty line however this figure rises rapidly to 60% as you progress into the north of the country particularly the Rural Savannah and Rural Forests areas. Much of this is down to due to a short rainy season that barely allows for subsistence farming leading to malnutrition amongst many children who live there.

Literacy rates are also as low as 1% in some northern areas and every year, malaria kills at least 20,000 children. 160,000 children in Ghana have been orphaned by AIDS and a further 17,000 children under the age of 15yrs are infected themselves out of a total child population of just over 10.5 million. Ghana is in 145th place out of 191 countries and territories in 2021 when ranked in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the living standards of a country.