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Over 500k Ghanaians Are Divorced, 400k Separated – 2021 Population Census Reveals
The latest data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) have revealed that 553,065 persons in Ghana have had their marriages dissolved while 405,090 have separated.
These figures were obtained through interviews of people during the 2021 PHC which began on June 27 and ended on August 15, 2021.
According to fresh data by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), 362,233 out of the 553,065 divorced persons are females with the remaining 190,832 being males translating into a share of 65.5% and 34.5%, respectively.
Of the over 400,000 spouses whose marriages have been separated, the majority were females with a corresponding figure of 252,079 persons; the remaining 153,011 were males.
The 2021 Population and Housing Census statistics put the total number of persons married in Ghana at 8,366,466 out of which 6,748,622 of them have not registered their marriages, with only 1,617,844 registered.
