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Ghana education data hub: schools, enrolment, results

65 indicators and 13 data stories, from WAEC, the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Statistical Service, the World Bank and our own register of 43,626 schools. Every figure carries the publisher and the year it reports. Refreshed on the second of every month and free to quote with attribution.

Exams, latest reported year

WASSCE core maths pass
48.7%
was 66.9% in 2024. WAEC, 2025
WASSCE English pass
69.0%
was 69.5% in 2024. WAEC, 2025
WASSCE science pass
57.7%
was 58.8% in 2024. WAEC, 2025
WASSCE social studies pass
55.8%
was 71.5% in 2024. WAEC, 2025
BECE candidates
603,328
was 569,236 in 2024. WAEC Ghana, 2025

The system, latest reported year

Schools on the register
43,626
Ministry of Education school register, 2023/24
Primary completion
97.5%
was 93.4% in 2022. World Bank Open Data, 2024
Adult literacy
76.5%
was 64.5% in 2017. World Bank Open Data, 2021
Women per man, tertiary
1.02
was 0.96 in 2023. World Bank Open Data, 2024
Education share of spending
13.2%
was 12.2% in 2021. World Bank Open Data, 2022

Each tile shows the latest year its source has published. Where our store holds an earlier year for the same figure, the tile says what it was.

Index by topic

Every indicator and every data story, filed once. Indicators open on this page. Stories open in full.

Exams

6 indicators

WASSCE and BECE, four years from the Council itself

Girls and boys

11 indicators

Where the gap closed, and where it reversed

The system

7 indicators

Enrolment, completion, and who is left out

Graduates

8 indicators

What Ghanaians study, and how many finish

Professions

2 indicators

What the qualified go on to do, and where they go

  • No story yet. The indicators below carry the figures.

Work

8 indicators

What the economy does with them afterwards

  • No story yet. The indicators below carry the figures.

Money

3 indicators

What the country spends, and on whom

  • No story yet. The indicators below carry the figures.

The household

8 indicators

The conditions schooling happens inside

  • No story yet. The indicators below carry the figures.

Reach

6 indicators

Whether a family can be reached at all

  • No story yet. The indicators below carry the figures.

Our own survey

6 indicators

The figures nobody else holds

  • No story yet. The indicators below carry the figures.

All 65 indicators

Latest value, the year its source reports and the source, by topic. Every topic has its own page with the full series and a sparkline for each indicator.

IndicatorLatestYearSource
Exams: full entries and series
BECE candidates603,3282025WAEC Ghana ours
Schools presenting BECE candidates19,5052024WAEC Ghana ours
WASSCE candidates passing core mathematics48.7%2025WAEC ours
WASSCE candidates passing English language69.0%2025WAEC ours
WASSCE candidates passing integrated science57.7%2025WAEC ours
WASSCE candidates passing social studies55.8%2025WAEC ours
Girls and boys: full entries and series
Adult literacy, men81.3%2021World Bank Open Data
Adult literacy, women72.1%2021World Bank Open Data
Boys out of primary school135,9892024World Bank Open Data
Gender parity, primary (1.00 is equal)1.022020World Bank Open Data
Gender parity, secondary1.002020World Bank Open Data
Gender parity, tertiary1.022024World Bank Open Data
Girls out of primary school99,3252024World Bank Open Data
Secondary enrolment ratio, boys75.0%2024World Bank Open Data
Secondary enrolment ratio, girls76.4%2024World Bank Open Data
Tertiary enrolment ratio, men21.1%2024World Bank Open Data
Tertiary enrolment ratio, women21.6%2024World Bank Open Data
The system: full entries and series
Adult literacy76.5%2021World Bank Open Data
Children out of primary school235,3132024World Bank Open Data
Primary completion rate97.5%2024World Bank Open Data
Primary pupils in private schools28.4%2022World Bank Open Data
Pupils enrolled in primary school4,984,1262024World Bank Open Data
Pupils per teacher, primary26.992019World Bank Open Data
Students enrolled in secondary school3,334,4092024World Bank Open Data
Graduates: full entries and series
Adults 25 and over with a bachelor's degree or higher5.17%2024World Bank Open Data
Graduates in agriculture2.44%2019World Bank Open Data
Graduates in engineering, manufacturing and construction7.61%2019World Bank Open Data
Graduates in health6.65%2019World Bank Open Data
Graduates in humanities and arts6.39%2019World Bank Open Data
Graduates in science4.88%2019World Bank Open Data
Graduates in services1.36%2019World Bank Open Data
Graduates in social science, business and law6.28%2019World Bank Open Data
Professions: full entries and series
Ghana-trained nurses joining the UK register in a year1,2002023UK Nursing and Midwifery Council ours
Lawyers called to the Ghanaian Bar9612025Ghana School of Law and the General Legal Council ours
Work: full entries and series
In vulnerable employment60.0%2025World Bank Open Data
Self-employed67.5%2025World Bank Open Data
Unemployment2.98%2025World Bank Open Data
Unemployment among those with advanced education5.73%2024World Bank Open Data
Working in agriculture34.6%2025World Bank Open Data
Working in industry18.3%2025World Bank Open Data
Working in services47.2%2025World Bank Open Data
Young people not in education, employment or training18.2%2025World Bank Open Data
Money: full entries and series
Education as a share of government spending13.2%2022World Bank Open Data
Education spending as a share of GDP2.91%2022World Bank Open Data
GDP per person$3,2572025World Bank Open Data
The household: full entries and series
Children aged 0 to 1412,423,1582025World Bank Open Data
Children under five who are stunted17.4%2022World Bank Open Data
Deaths before age five, per 1,00035.902024World Bank Open Data
Gini index of inequality43.502016World Bank Open Data
Living below the national poverty line23.4%2016World Bank Open Data
Multidimensionally poor, which counts schooling as one of its four dimensions21.9%2025Ghana Statistical Service ours
Population35,064,2722025World Bank Open Data
Population aged 0 to 1435.4%2025World Bank Open Data
Reach: full entries and series
Fixed broadband per 100 people0.662024World Bank Open Data
Mobile subscriptions39,126,0562024World Bank Open Data
Mobile subscriptions per 100 people113.652024World Bank Open Data
Using the internet72.2%2024World Bank Open Data
With access to electricity91.9%2024World Bank Open Data
With access to electricity, rural82.6%2024World Bank Open Data
Our own survey: full entries and series
Children aged 0 to 14 per school2852026SchoolRegistry Ghana ours
Districts covered2612026SchoolRegistry Ghana ours
Schools in Ashanti, the largest region7,0512026SchoolRegistry Ghana ours
Schools in the register43,6262026SchoolRegistry Ghana ours
Schools pinned to their own position17,9572026SchoolRegistry Ghana ours
Schools you can telephone16,9422026SchoolRegistry Ghana ours

Every school, by region

Counts, districts, telephone coverage and exactly mapped schools for all 16 regions, from the Ministry register with the regulators’ lists added, are on the regions page.

What is going stale

Published rather than hidden. 19 of our 65 figures are either from a source that has not released a newer year, or were entered by hand and are due a re-check. A page that only shows you its fresh numbers is telling you half of what it knows.

  • schools.ptr.primary: the source's latest year is 2019
  • schools.private.primary: the source's latest year is 2022
  • schools.literacy.adult: the source's latest year is 2021
  • gender.gpi.primary: the source's latest year is 2020
  • gender.gpi.secondary: the source's latest year is 2020
  • gender.literacy.women: the source's latest year is 2021
  • gender.literacy.men: the source's latest year is 2021
  • grads.engineering: the source's latest year is 2019
  • grads.science: the source's latest year is 2019
  • grads.health: the source's latest year is 2019
  • grads.business: the source's latest year is 2019
  • grads.humanities: the source's latest year is 2019

Using this data

Can I quote these figures?
Yes, with attribution to SchoolRegistry Ghana and to the original source named against each figure. We would rather be cited than scraped, so everything here carries its source and the year that source is reporting.
How current is this?
The store is refreshed on the second of every month, and was last written on 2026-10-13. Where a source has not published since, the page shows the year that source is reporting rather than implying the figure is current.
Which of these did you collect yourselves?
The school register, its mapping and its telephone coverage, marked in gold. Everything else comes from WAEC, the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Statistical Service, the World Bank and UNESCO, and is named.
What are the top SHS schools in Ghana for 2026?
There is no official top list. A ranking needs a published method, and the only official grouping we can point to is the Category A, B and C system used in school placement. Our categories page explains what the categories mean and the official counts of places.
What is Ghana ranked in education?
No international ranking is compiled here. What is published is the figures themselves, each with its source and year, in the indicators and stories on this page.
What are the 5 levels of education in Ghana?
Our guide to the education system sets out the stages from kindergarten to university, how long each lasts, which exam ends it and who runs it, with the enrolment figures beside them.
What are the current education issues in Ghana?
The stories on this page show where the data points to gaps, such as the lower scores of pupils in rural, public and deprived-district schools, pupils per teacher, and how far northern Ghana trails, and each one says what the data cannot show.
Why do the graduate field shares not add up to 100?
Because UNESCO leaves a large part of Ghana's graduate body unclassified. They are individual shares of the graduating cohort, not slices of a whole, and they are not drawn as a pie.