Population Ageing in Ghana: Research Gaps and the Way Forward

Table 1

Percentage distribution of Ghana’s age-sex structure by five-year age groups: 1960–2000.

Age group	1960			1970			1984			2000
	Both sexes	Male	Female	Both sexes	Male	Female	Both sexes	Male	Female	Both sexes	Male	Female
0–4	19.28	18.89	19.67	18.27	18.32	18.21	16.51	16.74	16.29	14.57	14.74	14.54
5–9	15.14	15.16	15.12	16.94	17.14	16.74	16.28	16.70	15.87	14.67	14.86	14.49
10–14	10.13	10.52	9.72	11.71	12.11	11.32	12.23	12.78	11.69	11.96	12.30	11.63
15–19	8.04	8.10	7.98	9.09	9.39	8.79	10.14	10.50	9.78	9.96	10.27	9.66
20–24	8.78	7.89	9.70	7.96	7.19	8.71	8.59	7.98	9.18	8.46	8.15	8.77
25–29	8.70	8.19	9.21	7.38	6.83	7.92	7.69	7.15	8.21	7.86	7.43	8.29
30–34	7.26	7.13	7.39	6.55	6.21	6.89	6.04	5.80	6.28	6.38	6.05	6.70
35–39	5.61	5.83	5.39	5.12	5.21	5.03	4.75	4.66	4.84	5.45	5.25	5.64
40–44	4.63	4.88	4.38	4.09	4.11	4.07	3.85	3.73	3.97	4.69	4.74	4.64
45–49	3.25	3.61	2.87	3.18	3.39	2.97	3.48	3.58	3.39	3.81	4.03	3.59
50–54	2.65	2.85	2.46	2.70	2.82	2.59	2.87	2.86	2.88	3.01	2.99	3.02
55–59	1.60	1.74	1.46	1.67	1.80	1.53	1.73	1.77	1.70	1.88	1.95	1.81
60–64	1.75	1.87	1.46	1.71	1.77	1.53	1.84	1.78	1.89	1.94	1.90	1.98
65–69	0.91	0.95	0.86	1.10	1.12	1.06	1.18	1.16	1.20	1.37	1.38	1.36
70–74	0.84	0.88	0.80	0.96	0.99	0.94	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.19	1.14	1.24
75–79	0.46	0.48	0.44	0.49	0.51	0.48	0.58	0.60	0.37	0.77	0.79	0.74
80+	0.96	1.02	0.90	1.08	1.09	1.08	1.20	1.17	1.23	1.96	2.01	1.91
Total	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Number	6,726, 815	3,399, 908	3,326, 907	8,559, 313	4,212, 883	4,349, 430	12,296, 081	6,063, 526	6,232, 555	18,912, 079	9,357, 382	9,554, 697

Sources: The 1960, 1970, 1984, and 2000 Population Censuses of Ghana.