A count of every MP’s date of birth shows a Parliament dominated by people in their forties and fifties. The youngest member is 34, the oldest is 73, and the House has had no member born after 1992 since January 2025.
Ghana is a young country with an older Parliament. Most Ghanaians are under 30, but the average Member of the 9th Parliament is 50.6 years old, and only 21 of the 276 MPs are under 40.
The figures come from an analysis of every MP’s date of birth by Agyedin, the Ghanaian biography site, which used the member records published by Parliament. It covers 274 MPs; Samuel Abu Jinapor of Damongo and Sebastian Ngmenenso Sandaare of Daffiama-Bussie-Issa have no date of birth on record. All ages are as of 27 September 2026.
The youngest MP: Millicent Yeboah Amankwah, 34
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The youngest member of the House is Millicent Yeboah Amankwah, the NDC MP for Sunyani West, born on 22 July 1992. She won the seat in December 2024 by unseating the NPP incumbent, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, a former Minister for Employment and Labour Relations. She took 26,828 votes, or 57.6 per cent.
She comes from Odumase in the Bono Region, went to Notre Dame Girls Senior High School and KNUST, and completed a Graduate Diploma in Law at the University of Law in the United Kingdom in 2022. She is also married to Mahama Ayariga, the MP for Bawku Central and Majority Leader. That makes the couple the first husband and wife to sit in Ghana’s Parliament at the same time.
The class of 1992
Three other MPs were born in 1992, only weeks before her. All four are 34.
- Issah Atta, NDC, Sagnarigu: born 2 May 1992 in Yendi. A chartered accountant who once worked in the NDC’s accounts, he won his party primary in 2023 by 801 votes to 330.
- Sulemana Alhassan, NDC, Yunyoo: born 6 May 1992. He finished his degree in human resource management at Valley View University in November 2024, a month before he was elected. He sits on the Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee and the Ways and Means Committee.
- Elvis Osei Mensah Dapaah, NPP, Ahafo Ano South West: born 8 May 1992, and the youngest MP on the minority side.
The oldest MP: James Gyakye Quayson, 73
At the other end of the chamber sits James Gyakye Quayson, the NDC member for Assin North, born on 9 October 1952. His route to Parliament was unusual. After finishing at Mfantsipim School in 1969 he spent decades in Toronto, where he studied at York University and worked in the city’s social services department.
His first election win, in 2020, was annulled after a legal fight over his Canadian citizenship. On 17 May 2023 the Supreme Court ruled that the Electoral Commission should not have accepted his nomination. He won the by-election that followed on 27 June 2023 with 57.6 per cent, and he held the seat again in December 2024.
The rest of the senior bench
The next two oldest MPs both represent the Upper West Region and both trained as lawyers.
Richard Kuuire of Nandom, who is 72, was Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service from 2000 to 2003. In December 2024 he beat the former Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, by 3,037 votes, one of the most talked-about results of the election.
Bede Anwataazumo Ziedeng of Lawra, who is 71, was called to the Bar in 1986 and has served as a deputy regional minister. In all, seven MPs are 70 or older, and every one of them sits on the NDC benches.
A House in its forties and fifties
Most MPs sit in the middle of the age range:
- 30 to 39: 21 MPs
- 40 to 49: 108 MPs
- 50 to 59: 102 MPs
- 60 to 69: 36 MPs
- 70 and over: 7 MPs
Together, MPs in their forties and fifties make up more than three-quarters of the House. The average age is 50.6 and the median is 50.
No one born in the Fourth Republic
The Fourth Republic began on 7 January 1993. From 2017 to 2025 the House did have a member born after that date: Francisca Oteng-Mensah, the NPP MP for Kwabre East, born on 14 February 1993. She was 23 when she was elected in December 2016, which made her the youngest MP of the Fourth Republic at the time.
Her term ended in January 2025, so the House no longer has a single member born under the constitution it works by. The Constitution sets the minimum age for an MP at 21, but in practice nobody under 34 now sits in the chamber.
NDC against NPP
The majority NDC is slightly older than the NPP minority. Its 184 MPs with a known date of birth average 51.2 years, against 49.7 for the NPP’s 86. The four independent MPs average 45.8.
New MPs are six years younger
The sharper split is between new and returning members. MPs in their first term average 47.1 years, while those who sat in an earlier Parliament average 53.5. The December 2024 election brought a large intake of newcomers, and it pulled the average age of the House down.
Youngest and oldest regions
The North East Region sends the youngest group of MPs to Accra, averaging 42.3 years across its six seats. The Savannah Region’s MPs are the oldest on average at 54.5, followed by the Upper West at 53.5. With so few seats in these regions, one or two members can move a regional average a long way.
See the full list
The complete table of all 276 MPs, sorted from oldest to youngest, is on Agyedin’s Parliament-by-age page, together with a free CSV file of the data. Readers can also look up any sitting member on its list of Ghana’s MPs.
