The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) 2021 Population and Housing Census (2021PHC) has revealed that more females in Ghana engaged in divorce than their male counterparts.
In all, the 2021PHC revealed that, 553,065 persons in Ghana have had their marriages dissolved with 405,090 been separated.
362,233 out of the 553,065 divorced persons are females with the remaining 190,832 being males translating into a share of 65.5% and 34.5%, respectively.
These figures were obtained through interviews of people during the 2021 PHC which began on June 27 and ended on August 15, 2021.
Of the over 400,000 spouses who have separated, the majority were females with a corresponding figure of 252,079 persons; the remaining 153,011 were males.
The census statistics put the total number of persons married in Ghana at 8,366,466 out of which 6,748,622 of them have not registered their marriages, with only 1,617,844 registered.
Marital Status
According to the report, marital status refers to the civil status of a person aged 12 years or older as of the Census Night on Sunday, June 27, 2021.
It may be one of the following cases; informal/consensual union/living together; A person living together in a marital union but without civil or traditional recognition and married under civil/ordinance, customary/traditional and Islamic rites, whether registered or not.
Others are separated; a person who no longer has common living arrangements with the spouse but whose marriage has not been declared customarily or legally dissolved and divorced; a person whose marriage has been annulled or dissolved either in a court of law or by custom and has not remarried.
