Fact check: 24-Hour Economy Chief Partnership Officer’s claim that Ghana’s unemployment rate is 6.4% is not supported by official data

Dr. Ishmael Nii Amanor Dodoo, the Chief Partnership Officer of the 24-Hour Economy Secretariat in Ghana, recently claimed that the national unemployment rate has declined to approximately 6.4%, down from a previous figure of 9.4%. However, this assertion has been challenged by a fact-check analysis, which indicates that the stated percentage is not supported by official government data.

In a separate economic development, official data from Turkey reported that the country's unemployment rate fell to 7.6% in June. This figure represents a 0.5 percentage point decrease from the previous month and marks the lowest jobless rate recorded in Turkey since monthly tracking began in 2005.