The Global Legislators Database has reported that, Ghana’s Politicians rank 7th on the globe for being highly educated.
According to the report, studies on this matter was carried out across the globe using data from 2015, 2017 and 2023 to arrive at the findings. The findings revealed that from 2015 to 2017, the highest qualification by an elected lawmaker was a PhD less than a a bachelor’s degree.
The survey which covered 56 countries put Ghana ahead of all the African Countries with Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Taiwan, South Korea and United States being the only countries ahead of Ghana.
The study found that, on average, 78% of parliamentarians held at least a bachelor’s degree and 40% had postgraduate degrees.
These figures are far above the global average education level among the general population (currently 35% in wealthy countries and 15% in poorer ones). The ranking below includes 56 countries with populations over two million and data covering at least 90% of legislators
