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GSS report; Over 168k married women cheat on their spouses

According to the report, 3.8% of married women in Ghana have had an extramarital affair.

Less than one per cent (0.9%) of married women also had two or more partners.

Also, 4.0% of divorced /separated/widowed women in Ghana have two or more partners and 46.6% have had sexual intercourse with persons who are neither their husbands nor lived with them.

Meanwhile, about 3.5% of women aged 15-24 have two or more partners, while 46.1% have had sexual intercourse with persons who are neither their husbands nor lived with them.

In a related development, the Report revealed that women between the ages of 20-24 had more sexual partners in comparison to other age groups.

For instance, while 3.4% of women aged 20-24 had two or more partners and 41.6% had sexual intercourse with persons who are neither their husbands, 3.3% of those aged 25-29 had two or more partners and 2.1% of their population had sexual intercourse with persons who are neither their husbands nor lived with them.

The percentages staggeringly drop amongst women aged 30-39 where only 1.5% of them had two or more partners and 14.4% had sexual intercourse with persons who were neither their husbands nor lived with them.

Amongst the 40-49-year-old group, less than one per cent (0.8%) had two or more partners and 11.4% had sexual intercourse with persons who were neither their husbands nor lived with them.