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The country’s 2015 Demographic and Health Survey estimated that 94.4% of women aged 15 to 49 and 94.1% of men in this age group were literate. Respondents were considered literate if they had attended school higher than the secondary level or could read a sentence or part thereof. UNESCO define...

To date 1.2 million students in Ghana have benefited from a free senior high school social intervention programme rolled out by the government in 2017. The programme, Free Senior High School (SHS), is meant to extend guaranteed access to free quality education for all children of school-going age fr...

The total number of laboratory-confirmed cases stood at 4,011,657 as of 31 Aug 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a tally of global confirmed Covid-19 cases, which is updated daily.You can find the numbers per country here and here. ...

About 8.5 million people in the country are HIV positive. This is according to Statistics SA’s 2022 mid-year population estimates report. ...

Out of the 6,083 people killed in the country in the fourth quarter of 2021/22, 898 of them were women and 4,879 were men. This works out to an average of 2 women and 13 men murdered per day in South Africa. The South African Police Service's annual report recorded 19,904 murders in 2020/21. Of t...

In 2020/21, a total of 2,655 women were murdered in South Africa. This is a 1.5% decrease from the previous year. A total of 882 children were murdered in 2020/21 – a 6.5% decline from the previous year. According to the South African Police Service’s Fourth Quarter Crime Statistics 2021/2022...

South Africa’s murder rate is mainly driven by the high rates in three provinces – the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. In 2021/22 both the Eastern and Western Cape recorded 55 murders per 100,000 people. KZN recorded 42 per 100,000. ...

Niger has the world’s youngest population. Half of Niger’s population is 14 or younger, and the median age is 15. ...

As of February 2020, there were only 67 ICU ventilators and no non-invasive ventilation machines for a population of 30 million people in Ghana. This is equivalent to an estimated ventilator capacity of 0.22 ventilators per 100,000 people in Ghana. Even if operating room ventilators are used as a ba...