As of 2021, the Ashanti and Greater Accra regions were the most populous in Ghana, each accounting for around six million inhabitants. Following these were the Central and Eastern regions, each registering 2.9 million people. Since 2010, the total population of Ghana has grown to reach almost ...
Focuses on resources and infrastructure of Ghana. Statistics on the population of the Country; Projection that population growth will continue to slow and that the total population will not reach 25 million until 2015; Figures representing the number of population by region....
The aim of this study was to estimate sex using proximal femoral parameters of adult population in the Volta region of Ghana. This study made use of 214 normal anteroposterior (AP) radiographs of the pelvis that showed the hip joints and the proximal femora. The age and sex were recorded. ...
The fastest growing world region Africa is the second most populous continent in the world, after Asia. Nevertheless, Africa records the highest growth rate worldwide, with figures rising by over two percent every year. In some countries, such as in Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and...
In the 1970 census only 57.1% of the population were enumerated in their locality of birth and only 20.9% in a locality other than their place of birth but in the same region. 4.1% were born outside Ghana, mostly in another West African country. 1 striking difference between urban and ...
While the centre of diversity of cowpea’s wild progenitor is suggested to be in eastern and southern Africa, based on the presence in the sub-region of several primitive, weedy and wild types1,2, that of the cultivated type is in West Africa3. More than 75% of the over 15,000 ...
The study recruited first-time mothers, and their children, who were receiving postnatal services at the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) clinic, located in the Tamale Metropolis in the Northern region of Ghana. The RCH is well patronized by young mothers and was therefore suitable for mother...
Information about age structure by region were derived from household survey data by using raw data files. Given that the format and structure of all household survey data are very similar, a data management process was developed to produce standardized outputs from the raw tables containing age an...
Among other genus and families, EAZA institutions host the largest captive population of white-naped mangabeys (Cercocebus atys lunulatus), a West African endemic non-human primate from (Ghana, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso)37currently classified as ‘Endangered’ by The Red List ...
Our sample (n = 282) extends significantly the Y-chromosomal coverage of West African populations (Senegal [5], Gambia/Senegal Wolof and Mandenka [7], Mali [2] and Dogon [7], Burkina-Faso [1, 26], Ghana Ewe, Ga and Fante [7]) both in size and number of surveyed ethnic groups. ...