High rates of economic growth and increasing incomes during the first decade of the 2000s help to explain the reduction in labour force participation of the population aged 65 and above (see also Chapter 2). The same is suggested by the pattern of unemployment across age groups. The ratio of the youth unemployment rate to the adult unemployment rate was close to two for both foreign-bom and Ghanaian-born workers in 2000, but had become far less favourable in 2010 for young Ghanaian-bom workers than for foreign-bom workers (3.0 and 2.0, respectively, Table 3.1).