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District Profiles of Ghana

Facts on all 261 metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies across Ghana’s 16 regions: who lives there, how they live, and where the gaps are. Built from the 2021 Population and Housing Census to support planning, advocacy and accountability.

Pick a region to zoom in. Click a district to open its profile. Boundaries: OCHA/GSS.

District ranking

Ghana average

Compare up to three districts

Side-by-side figures with the Ghana average. The better value on each row is shown in green where "better" is meaningful.

District Assemblies Common Fund over the years

Audited figures from the Auditor-General's DACF reports. Each year covers the quarters released in that audit year, so years are not all the same length; hover a year to see its period.

Crop production in Ghana

Official estimates from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Agriculture in Ghana: Facts & Figures 2024. 2024 figures are provisional. Only figures that passed SDD's consistency checks are shown.

Estimate2024 provisionalGaps = years where MoFA's own tables disagree

National production, 2015–2024 ('000 tonnes)

– marks a year where MoFA's main table and its appendix give different figures, so neither is shown. * provisional.

Click a region to open its profile. Regional figures for census indicators are GSS's own regional tables; cedi amounts are regional totals unless stated.

Region ranking

Ghana

Full dataset

All 261 districts. Click a column header to sort. Download the full table for your own analysis — please cite SDD Ghana and the Ghana Statistical Service.

About the District Profiles

Savings and Development Dialogue (SDD Ghana) compiled these profiles so that assembly members, civil society groups, journalists, researchers and citizens can see, district by district, where Ghana stands on poverty, education, health, water and sanitation, energy, jobs and digital access.

Sources of Data

  • Ghana Statistical Service, 2021 Population and Housing Census, GSS StatsBank (statsbank.statsghana.gov.gh). Census night: 27 June 2021.
  • Multidimensional poverty follows GSS's census-based MPI: 13 indicators across living conditions, education, health and employment. (GSS, 2023).
  • Boundaries and land area: OCHA/GSS subnational administrative boundaries (Humanitarian Data Exchange). Guan District (Oti Region), created in 2021, has census data but no published boundary yet, so it appears in tables but not on the map. For twelve small urban assemblies in Accra and Kumasi (under 25 km² in the boundary file) the boundaries are not precise enough to give a reliable land area, so area and population density are left blank.
  • Governance: assembly type and capital from the 2021 census district frame, verified against the 2026 composite budgets of the Ministry of Finance.
  • District Assemblies Common Fund: allocations, deductions and net releases from the Reports of the Auditor-General on the DACF and other statutory funds (Appendix A) for 2023 (fourth quarter of 2022 to third quarter of 2023), 2024 (four quarters of 2024) and 2025 (first to third quarter of 2025). 2026 figures are each assembly's projected DACF and MP Common Fund receipts in its 2026 composite budget (Ministry of Finance).

Reading the indicators

  • Most indicators are percentages. Household indicators (water, toilets, lighting, cooking fuel) are shares of households; others are shares of people in the stated age group.
  • School attendance rates (ages 6–14 and 15–19) are census-based measures of how many children were in school, a district-level stand-in for enrolment.
  • In district profiles, ▲ better and ▼ worse flag a gap of 5 points or more from the Ghana average on indicators where direction is clear.
  • Census figures describe 2021. Where conditions have changed since, local data from district assemblies should take precedence.

Cite as

SDD Ghana (2026). District Profiles of Ghana. Savings and Development Dialogue, Tamale. Data: Ghana Statistical Service, 2021 Population and Housing Census.

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Spotted an error, or have district data to share (assembly budgets, health facilities, school records)? Contact SDD Ghana through sddgh.org.