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Key facts
- Currency: New Ghanaian cedi
- Capital city: Accra
- Region: Western Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 227,533 km²
- Population: 33,475,870
- Political Leader: Nana Akufo-Addo (President)
Latest news
Uganda, Ghana LGBTQ+ activists urge Ottawa to step up action against homophobic laws
Read: The Star
2024-03-20
How A Program in Ghana to Create Green Jobs Can Be a Lesson for US Mayors & Across the Globe
Read: Global Issues
2024-03-19
Men enthusiastically express their heterosexuality in Ghana, so why is being queer so unacceptable? | Elliot Kwabena Akosa
Read: The Guardian
2024-03-19
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General information
Business
Expense | 21.88 % of GDP |
GDP | 73,766,100,000.00 current US$ |
Inflation | 31.26 annual % |
Self-employed | 75.11 % of total employment |
Tax revenue | 11.34 % of GDP |
Unemployment | 3.52 % of total labor force |
Vulnerable employment | 69.54 % of total employment |
Environment
Agricultural land | 126,037.00 km² |
Alternative and nuclear energy | 5.87 % of total energy use |
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 19,401.20 kt |
Electricity production from coal sources | 0.00 % of total |
Electricity production from natural gas sources | 38.85 % of total |
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 50.87 % of total |
Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
Electricity production from oil sources | 0.00 % of total |
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 0.03 % of total |
Net energy imports | -8.19 % of energy use |
Fertility rate | 3.56 births per woman |
Forest area | 79,929 km² |
Fossil fuel energy consumption | 52.54 % of total |
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 680.01 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Median age | 16.60 years |
Methane emissions | 11,847.90 kt of CO2 equivalent |
Nitrous oxide emissions | 6,369.12 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Female Population | 16,780,756 |
Male Population | 16,695,114 |
Renewable energy consumption | 40.25 % of total final energy consumption |
Rural land area | 227,830.00 km² |
Rural population | 13,853,989 |
Urban land area | 5,559.55 km² |
Urban population | 19,621,881 |
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 1.42 % of total population |
Health
Birth rate | 27.55 per 1,000 people |
Death rate | 7.63 per 1,000 people |
Health expenditure per capita | 84.98 current US$ |
Health expenditure | 3.99 % of GDP |
Incidence of HIV | 0.57 per 1,000 uninfected population |
Hospital beds | 0.90 per 1,000 people |
Life expectancy at birth | 64 years |
Suicide mortality rate | 6.60 per 100,000 population |
Other
Access to electricity | 86.30 % of population |
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence | 5,000 |
Individuals using the Internet | 68.20 % of population |
Net migration | -9,999 |
Press freedom | 3.76 |
Politics
Armed forces personnel | 16,000 |
Democracy score | 6.63 |
Democracy type | Flawed democracy |
Military expenditure | 0.35 % of GDP |
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 14.55 % |
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