The bar chart provides information of the proportion of household, categorized based on poverty, on the basis of access to basic amenities in Ghana between the year 1991/1992 to 1998/1999.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that the rich had the highest access to electricity. People were accessible to water within the period of six to seven years.
In the early 90’s, water was reachable to the rich, it was the highest at approximately 76%, while both the poor and the needy were able to use have access to water, at 69% and 55% respectively. Regarding electricity, which was the second highest, non-poor was slightly less than three-quarter, whereas roughly 57% of the poor were accessible to power supply. The beggars were able to reached power outage which accounted for 48%. Furthermore, during this period, only few out of the beggars could afford refrigerator in their houses. 11% of the needy and just below one-quarter of the rich households had refrigerators in their homes.
During the late nineties century, electricity supply was seen to be the largest during this period. Power supply usage among the affluents had increased to roundly 85%, conversely, there was a decline among the poor from 57 percent to 48 percent. In contrast, there was a steady rise among those the non-poor who owned refrigerator (from 24% to % 37%). Notably, the figure had remained unchanged amidst the needy homes throughout the period of seven years