In all, minority ethnic groups which are not from the southern sector of the country comprise about 10 per cent of the population of the region (10.3%). Our education system will attract other Africans to Ghana Dr NGO calls for inclusive education for PWDs, Footballer in court for defrauding food vendor of GH17,000.00, Statement on captive Tiger euthanized in South Africa, Diet Villain explains how to recover your lost butt while trying to lose weight, Psychologist advises bondholders to look up to Higher Being in Domestic Debt Exchange, Peace and security are prerequisites for effective implementation of AfCFTA Police, Rigworld Foundation to sponsor 10 graduates from Nyong Technical Vocational School annually. This is the newly built cotton ginnery at Pusu-Namongo (near Bolgatanga). The municipality was carved out from the Bolgatanga community, and it was inaugurated on the 15th of March, 2018. The region has three Midwifery Schools and one State Registered Nursing School. However, the two adjacent districts in the Northern region, which are located to the South of Bawku East and Bawku West, are mostly Mamprusi. The climate is characterized by one rainy season from May/June to September/October. About one in eight (12.3%) had jobs but did not work. The working children in the district are mainly self-employed without employees (61.7%), unpaid family workers (33%), domestic employees (1.9%), employees (1.6%) and apprentices (1.1%). The Niger-Congo languages include the Gur languages, also known as Central Gur or Mabia. Indeed, both numbers and proportions for all the Christian denominations and the other religions are larger for females than for males. The major industrial activities engaged in by the children are: agricultural related activity, including hunting, forestry and fishing (62.4%), manufacturing (25.2%) and wholesale and retail trade (4.8%). The inadequate number of SSSs may hamper progression from JSS to SSS. For males the proportion ranges from 57.7 per cent in Bolgatanga to 89.0 per cent in Bawku West, while that for females is from 44.8 per cent to 81.5 per cent in the same districts. These are polished and used in the cladding of commercial buildings and monuments. There are two commercial quarries in the region namely, the Upper Quarry Limited located at Pwalugu on the Bolgatanga-Tamale road and the Granites and Marbles Company Limited located in Tongo. For 21.8 per cent of localities in the region, students would have to travel 6 kilometres or more in order to attend the nearest JSS. About three quarters (72.6%) of all households using five or more sleeping rooms have seven or more members. Households size and number of sleeping rooms. The proportion literate in a Ghanaian language (i.e. Bongo (10.3%), Builsa (6.5%) and Bawku West (6.1%) are the least attractive destinations of migrants. The three districts together have 85.6 per cent of all the available medical staff. At the district level, the ratio varies from a doctor to 9,343 people in Kassena-Nankana to 77,885 in Bongo. The much-discussed educational difference between males and females in the region is due, as much to differences in initial enrolment, as to differences in school achievement. There are 2,394 persons in the region who were enumerated outside the home, constituting 3.9 per cent of the national figure as compared to Ashanti Region (19.1%) and Greater Accra Region (27.0%). At the national level the proportion of urban population rose from 32.0 percent in 1984, 43.8 percent in 2000 and 50.9 percent in 2010. The region shares boundaries with Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, Upper West Region to the west, and the Northern Region to the south. In all the districts, agriculture and related workers are the single largest occupation. Together, the three account for between 88.3 per cent and 96.0 per cent of the working population in the districts. Almost two thousand (1,627) hand pumps (boreholes) and a number of hand-dug wells serve a majority of the rural populations. The district has no hospital, but the clinic is soon to be upgraded into a district hospital. Historically, the Upper East Region is part of what used to be the Upper Region (Upper East and Upper West), which was itself carved out of what used to be the Northern Region on 1st July, 1960. The major languages of the region are Dagaare, Sissali, Wale and Lobi. In the urban areas, gutters constructed, as storm drains along roads have also become receptacles for solid and liquid waste disposal, thus, becoming sites for mosquitoes and other pests to breed. The region is bounded to the north by Burkina Faso, to the east by Togo and to the south and west by Northern and Upper West Regions respectively. Temporary heads make up an additional 0.9 per cent of household members. The population density of the region is higher than the national average. The proportion of households with one or two rooms varies between 9.3 per cent in Bawku East to 37.4 per cent in Kassena-Nankana. In the region, however, 84.6 per cent use the kerosene lamp. In all, 85.9 per cent of the households in the country and 78.1 per cent in the region use cooking fuels that deplete the forest cover (wood and charcoal). The use of open space around the house is higher in the region (15.5 percent) than in the country as a whole (8.6%). literate in a Ghanaian language only or literate in English and a Ghanaian language) however is only 8.3 percent. Burnt by household implies that the household burns the rubbish and Buried by household is the situation where the rubbish is buried inside or outside the dwelling unit. In the region as a whole, children of head of household constitute 42 per cent of household members. The region has a large and youthful labour force, which, if properly managed, can become a great economic asset. Below is a list of Ghana demographics, showing the list of ethnic groups in Ghana and population percentage. As for the ethnic groups and tribes in the Upper East Region of Ghana, there are seven major ethnic groups and more than eight languages. Markets abound for these crafts in countries such as Britain, Germany and the USA. It is also one of the few matrilineal societies in West Africa and Africa as a whole. Livestock and poultry production are also important. When the youth are added to the population aged below 15 years, their proportions range from 50.4 per cent in Kassena-Nankana to 54.3 per cent in Bawku West. Be the first to get hottest news from our Editor-in-Chief, Check your email and confirm your subscription. These are also the three main sources of cooking fuel in each of the districts. Mud/mud brick is used mostly in Builsa (46.9%) and Kassena-Nankana (54.2%). It is worth noting that Bongo has both the highest proportion of female household heads (35.7%) and lowest female temporary household heads (59.4%), far exceeding both regional and national levels. Three national highways N2, N10, and N11 and a few Regional highways such as the R113, R114, R116 and R181, serve the region. Even the lowest proportion of households with no toilet facilities is 73.3 per cent (in Bawku East), followed closely by Bolgatanga, the regional capital district, with 75.1 percent. Rooms in compound houses are the predominant type of dwelling units in all the districts. It varies from 0.3 per cent in Bolgatanga to 2.6 per cent in Builsa. They have higher natural fertility but are more difficult to till and are prone to seasonal waterlogging and floods. The proportion that is grandchildren and other relatives varies from 17.6 per cent in the Builsa, to 31.7 per cent in the Bongo, District. The distribution of children by occupation, industry, and employment status and institutional sector generally follows closely the pattern of the adult population in each district. In a polygamous family, one mans death results in more than one woman becoming a widow, whereas one wifes death in the same polygamous family does not result in a man reporting himself as widowed. Assin North Municipal. 5. The Upper East Region is underlain by two main geologic formations: the Pre-Cambrian Basement Complex and the Paleozoic Consolidated Sedimentary Formations. Bawku East has the highest proportion of very large households (40.7%), followed by Bawku West (28.6%); Builsa has the lowest proportion (7.8%) of very large households. The lowest (27.3%) is in Kassena-Nankana. The proportion urban in the country (43.8%) is almost three times as large as that of the region (15.7%). Less than a tenth (9.3%) of households occupying four sleeping rooms can be classified as over-crowded. Naturalized Ghanaians constitute a further 5.3 per cent and the rest are non-Ghanaians. Expenditure/Income ratio was 1.13 as against a target of 0.72%. Although the proportion of females who had never attended school is still higher than that for males, the proportion has reduced from 88.1 per cent in 1984 to 74.4 per cent in 2000. Among the households with two sleeping rooms, about one in eight (12.6%) can be classified as over-crowded and only 3.4 per cent of households occupying three sleeping rooms are considered as over-crowded compared to the regional proportion of about 9 percent. In the districts, spouses who are separated range from one per cent in Bawku East to 3.4 per cent in Bongo. The high proportions of the economically active populations of Bongo and Bolgatanga for both males and females may reflect the fact that these two districts produce the bulk of the well-known raffia baskets (Bolga basket) and leather products. Payment rate has risen to 87.48% from a target of 85%. in our study site vs 14.5% in the Upper East region and 7.9% in Dodowa HDSS vs 9.9% in the Greater Accra region. Data from various sources of the Ministry of Health show that the human resource base of the orthodox health system is generally inadequate. It ranges between 4.8 per cent in Kassena-Nankana and 7.2 per cent in Bongo. The IEC finalized 2018 parliamentary election results in May, and 418 female candidates contested the 250 . These are: The number of Pipe Systems under CWSA management is 10 out of the targeted 20 for the year 2019. At the regional level, the drop is 27.9 percentage points (from 109.9% for age 15-19 to 82.0% for age 20-24). The proportion ranges from 17 per cent in Bongo to 38.5 per cent in Bawku East. 1. The proportion of the population aged six years or older, who have never attended school varies from 61.2 per cent in Bolgatanga, to 77.8 per cent in the Bawku East, District. The proportion of localities that has met the Ministrys accessibility policy standard is greater than the regional average in four of the six districts. The private informal sector, especially agriculture and small-scale industries, is the largest source of employment in the region. The fact that children, grandchildren and other relatives of the head constitute more than 60 per cent of household members supports the view that the traditional external family household composition has not changed much. Housing condition and community facilities. There are also quite a number of hand-dug wells that serve some of the rural populations. Leatherworks are carried out at areas around Bolgatanga and the surrounding villages. Virtually, no industries, There is high incidence of youth migration to the South in the dry season. In this predominantly peasant labour intensive agricultural economy, if the district economies do not grow rapidly and jobs are not created sufficiently to match the economically active population, there will be a constant pool of unemployed labour. Chiana, Binaba-Kusanaba and Pusiga do not have permanent water system staff offices. In Ghana, the Gur group is subdivided into three major ethnic groups. Among the males, the proportion that had never attended school was 75.6 per cent in 1984, but reduced to 64.0 per cent in 2000. This picture is reflected at the regional and district levels, though at lower levels. The gold mining industry is not very developed in the region. The Districts are further subdivided into Area/Town Councils/Unit Committees , Talensi-Nabdam (carved out of Bolgatanga) with its capital at Tongo and Garu-Tempane (carved out of Bawku East) with its capital at Garu Tempane, have been created. A high proportion of the households in each district, ranging from 81.6 per cent in the Bolgatanga, to 93.4 per cent in the Bawku West, District, live in dwellings owned by a relative. The second major religion is Christianity, constituting of 28.3 percent; it is not predominant in any district. When educational attainment is restricted to the population aged 6 years and over, the proportion in the region which has never attended school is 71.8 percent. Employees and the self-employed with employees (who could be taxed at source) make up only 9 percent. Bawku West has the lowest ratio of one healer to 458 people, followed by Builsa with 513 people, about 80 times less than the population per orthodox doctor ratio in these districts. Except in a few towns, majority of the inhabitants live in rural areas with subsistence farms around their houses. However, within region of birth categories, there is no consistent pattern of a higher percentage of males or of females. Some of the dominant dialects include Nankani, Bisah, Kusal, Ndam, Kassem, and Gurune. It also reflects the socioeconomic condition of the household. Danish (includes Greenlandic (who are predominantly Inuit) and Faroese) 85.6%, Turkish 1.1%, other 13.3% (largest groups are Polish, Syrian, Romanian, German, and Iraqi) (2022 est.) There are programmes to improve agriculture and food production (extension services, introduction of new varieties of crops). These themes included were: inadequate infrastructure (lack of bed and . There are also maternity homes and nine dressing centres. Literacy in English only or in both English and Ghanaian language, which is effectively the functional ones vis--vis much of published materials, is only about 20.0 per cent for the region compared to about 47.0 per cent for the country. Education (2.8% for males) and hotels and restaurants (1.8 % for females) deserve mention as the fourth major activities in the region. The five together make up 97.6 per cent of all occupations. In the new system, instructions start in English. The regional picture, however, changes depending on the base district of the ethnic groups. About the same proportion of localities (25.1%) have the nearest post office being 30 kilometres or more away. There is a large prospect in the region for investors wishing to go into brick and tile production because of the availability of large deposits of clay of various types. St. John Bosco's College of Education About 36 per cent of households with only one sleeping room are over-crowded compared to 42 per cent in the region. About two-thirds (64.4%) is young, between 15 and 39 years. Females, on the other hand, are predominantly as sales workers, service workers and production and transport equipment workers. The problem with education is the large number of persons aged 6 years and older who have never attended school. For the region, also, the labour force aged 15-34 years shrank slightly from 56.4 per cent of the total labour force in 1984 to 55.7 per cent in 2000, while those aged 35-64 increased marginally. What is the population of Ghana in 2021? It is only in Bongo that the proportion of the working force, aged less than 40 years, is lower than 60 per cent (59.4%). The population per doctor ratio for the region is 23,592, which is far higher than the national average of 1 doctor to 9,418 persons. A few of the children are engaged in mining and quarrying activities (1.5%) in the private household activities (1.7%). The dance's tone changes depending on the situation, and it is used to communicate emotions and feelings between both sexes. It lies between longitude 0 and 1 West, and latitudes 10 30N and 11N. The Central Region - Cape Coast. Sales workers are otherwise the third major occupation in the other districts. The dry season starts from November and ends in April and is characterized by cold, dry and dusty harmattan winds. There are six major ethnic groups in Ghana's population. A higher proportion share bathrooms in the country (separate bathroom shared and open cubicle shared) than in the region. The Upper Northern Region has 13 districts with a total of population of 1,046,545. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. The data indicate that within the limited resources, Bolgatanga is the most endowed in terms of medical staff in 2000, having 41.7 per cent of doctors and 38.4 per cent of all medical staff, including 32.4 of nurses. There was, thus, a 2.8 percentage point reduction in the rural share of the population between 1984 and 2000 and a further 5.3 percent reduction between 2000 and 2010.[3]. Unlike in agriculture, the proportion of females engaged in manufacturing is higher than that of males at the regional and district levels (often about twice). Nationality. . Less than one per cent (0.9%) of the 1,390 localities within the region have a post office within the locality. The lower proportion of males who have ever married also reflects the fact that men are more likely than women to postpone marriage since traditional practices expect the man to initiate the marriage by paying the bride price and the responsibility for family maintenance. The same pattern is observed in each district. The use of such dumpsites varies from about 3.0 per cent in the Bawku West, to about 20.0 per cent in the Builsa, District. In four of the districts these three contribute to more than 90 per cent of the economically active population. The region's capital is Nalerigu. Less than one in eight localities has a clinic/maternity home. The largest growth in urban proportion occurred in Bawku (34,074 to 51,379) and Bolgatanga (32,495 to 49,162). The proportion of the private formal sector in the region, however, is only one half of the national. The major ethnic groups are the Dagaba, Sisaala and Wala. Open menu. The N10 originates from Yemoransa in the Central Region and connects through Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and terminates at Paga in the Upper East Region. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina . Below is a list of ethnic groups in Ghana and where they migrated from. The substantial lack of formal sector, office based bureaucratic activities in the region is reflected in the fact that only 1.7 per cent of the economically active are engaged in administrative, managerial, clerical and related work. With only 15.7 per cent of the population living in urban areas, the region is the least urbanized in the country. 71 % are Christian, 18 % are Muslim, 5 % have indigenous/animistic beliefs, and 6 % belong to other religious groups/have no religious beliefs. Three districts, Builsa, Bawku East and Bawku West have occupancy ratios of 1.7 persons per room, while Kassena-Nankana has the highest ratio of 2.0. The 16 regional capitals; Oti Region - Dambai Bono East Region - Techiman The population aged 30-44 years who are likely to have considerable work experience constitute between 26.2 and 27.9 per cent of the economically active population in the districts. From age 20, ablebodied persons begin to migrate and some may return after age 64. They are known as Ghanaians. 3). The proportion of children surviving, however, is about 10.0 percentage points lower for the region. The proportion currently married is higher in the region than in the country as a whole where only 49.9 per cent are currently married. In the region and in each district, females constitute the higher proportion of the not economically active population because of the greater proportion of females who are homemakers. List of Western North Region districts and their capitals. The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. On the other hand, in each district, there are twice as many males as females in the public and semipublic/ parastatal sectors. About a tenth of economically active persons are either unpaid family workers (6.6%) or apprentices (3.7). These are usually strong indicators of the level of development of a community. Kassena-Nankana has an age dependency ratio of 87.8 and a dependent population of 40.5 per cent below 15 years and 6.1 per cent 65 years and above. The Upper East region is divided into 15 districts, each headed by a district chief executive. The community is blessed with millet, shea butter, maize, and gold, among others. This means that the formal sector constitutes only 25.4 per cent of the economy of the region and this has implications for tax revenue mobilization. Light bills from Bongo and Zebilla systems amounting to the tune of Ghs150,000.00 is still outstanding. The already existing large proportion of the unemployed poses a challenge for job creation. The proportion of males (93.3%) and that of females (92.2%) never married is about the same. Some people even use chamber pots or other small receptacles (including plastic bags) and dispose of these in all sorts of places including open fields, streams and gutters. The regional total fertility rate (TFR) of 4.0 and the mean age of child bearing (33 years) implies a continuous child bearing throughout the reproductive periods. Naden, Anthony J. At the district level, the proportion of the population who are heads of households ranges from 11.4 per cent in Bawku East to 19.2 per cent in Builsa, while the proportion of temporary heads ranges from 0.8 per cent in Bawku West and Bawku East to 1.4 per cent in Builsa. Bolgatanga The three main occupations among working children in Bolgatanga are agriculture and related occupations (61.5%), production and transport equipment work (23.1%) and service work (10.3%); about 4.5 per cent are sales workers. A comparison of the data on school attendance shows that there has been some improvement in the region. The Lower Birimian Series comprises phyllites, schists, shales, greywackes and siltstones whereas the Upper Birimian consists of thick beds of agglomerate, pyroclastic and hypabyssal intrusive rocks and the rock types are mostly grewackes and phyllites. The proportion of own children, of the head, varies from 33.5 per cent in the Bongo, to 44.5 per cent in the Bawku West, District. On the other hand, one man dying will result in more than one widowed female in a polygamous marriage. Whereas almost one in every two localities in the region has a primary school, only one in every five has a JSS. These have important implications which must be taken into account for socio-economic planning. Women of childbearing ages 15-49 comprise 24.9 per cent the total population of the region in 2000, compared with 23 per cent in 1984. Almost all households in the region (97.5%) have some cooking space within the premises of the housing unit, and 82.8 per cent use a space provided for bathing within the house. Even though spring and well water can sometimes be cleaner and clearer than piped water, which can be contaminated at various stages of distribution after treatment, for the purpose of this discussion, potable or safe water will be defined in relation to only treated pipe-borne water and boreholes. The dry season starts in November and ends in March/April with maximum temperatures occurring towards the end of the dry season (March . Comparison of socio-economic indicators at the national and regional levels. In Builsa the age dependency ratio is 94.3, and the populations aged below 15 years and aged 65 years and above are 42.3 per cent and 6.3 per cent respectively. The process actually started in 1980 when what eventually became Upper West was run on an experimental base as a semi-autonomous region with Wa as the administrative centre, even though the Upper Regional Minister at Bolgatanga exercised overall responsibility. Upper East is one of the ten regions of Ghana. There has been an improvement in school attendance in the region. Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese. Thus put together the proportion of females in the region (19.8%) with primary and middle/JSS is lower than that for males (26.1%). The Kwa linguistic group, which includes the Akan, Ewe, and Ga-Adangbe, is located in south Volta. Determination of the population in occupied households, in comparison with the total number of households, as well as the population per room can give an indication of the prevalence of homelessness and the extent of over-crowding in a locality. The low level of population movement into the region is reflected in the fact that the proportion born outside the locality of enumeration is 10.0 per cent compared with the national average of 31.0 percent. Illiteracy is very much higher in the region than for the country as a whole. The regions population of 920,089 is not evenly distributed among the six districts. Catholics constitute the majority (57.7%) of the Christian population, followed by the Charismatic/Pentecostals (21.7%). The quality and accessibility of educational institutions have great implications for development. In all the other districts, the pattern is similar to what is observed in the region as a whole. In the districts, the proportion literate in a Ghanaian language ranges from 0.5 per cent of the population aged 15 years and older in Bawku West to 2.6 per cent in Bongo. This observation is true for both males and females. Consensual union or living together is not a common practice in the region. 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