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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

Rangers ace Diomande set to pick Ivory Coast over Ghana

Read: The National

2024-03-21

Rangers ace Diomande set to pick Ivory Coast over Ghana

Read: The National

2024-03-21

Ghana cabinet nominees blocked in anti-gay bill row

Read: BBC

2024-03-21

Ottawa urged to step up against homophobic laws in Uganda, Ghana

Read: Global News

2024-03-20

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

Metrics

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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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 8 days ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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