Number of people living in extreme poverty in Ghana from 2016 to 2023, by area (in 1,000s)

In 2023, around **** million people in Ghana lived in extreme poverty, the majority in rural areas. The count of people living on less than **** U.S. dollars a day in rural regions reached around *** million, while ******* extremely poor people were located in urban areas. Overall, within the period examined, the poverty incidence remained above *********** in rural communities and between *** thousand and *** thousand in urban areas.