Despite Ghana's economic growth, the country's workforce is struggling to see real gains in income or job security, the World Bank's latest Ghana Economic Update reveals.
Between 2012 and 2023, industry and services added 720,000 jobs while agriculture lost 470,000.
Urban areas absorbed 2.4 million more working-age people, yet real wages fell by 3% over the decade.
The report highlights that youth participation in the workforce is declining, medium-skilled sectors such as manufacturing, construction, and domestic services remain slow-growing, and roughly one million young Ghanaians now live abroad.
