Ghana
65 figures for Ghana, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Ghana compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $3,257 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $8,610 (2025)
- Economic growth +6.0% (2025)
- Unemployment 3.0% (2025)
- Inflation +22.8% (2024)
- Exports 35.1% (2024)
- Income per person $6,843 (2023)
- Household wealth 51.0 (2018)
- Poorer households 48.5% (2018)
- Wealth inequality 0.20 (2018)
- Women in paid work 72.0% (2014)
People
- Population 33.8 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.83% (2025)
- Births per woman 3.34 (2024)
- Typical age 20.9 (2023)
- Living in cities 58.9% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.628 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.933 (2023)
- People per household 4.7 (2018)
- People over 65 4.7% (2018)
- Children under 15 44.8% (2018)
- Women’s age at first marriage 20.6 (2018)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.7 (2018)
Health
- Life expectancy 65.5 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 35.9 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 234 (2023)
- Health spending per person $70 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 90% (2024)
- Overweight adults 36.7% (2022)
- Stunted children 17.5% (2018)
- Overweight children 1.6% (2018)
- Homes with piped water 7.0% (2018)
- Homes with a flush toilet 10.1% (2018)
Education
- Years of schooling 7.1 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.4 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 77.8% (2022)
- Education spending 2.9% (2022)
- Teens in school 84.8% (2018)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.611 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 21 million (2024)
- Forest cover 35.2% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 28.2 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 39.0% (2021)
- Average temperature 27.3 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 369 (2023)
- Access to electricity 91.9% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 36.2% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 99.7% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 72.2% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 120.8 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.6 (2022)
- Homes with internet 24.6% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 90.0% (2018)
Food and farming
- Hunger 6.3% (2023)
- Cereal yield 2,688 (2023)
- Farmland 55.4% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 34.6% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.71 (2025)
- Human rights 0.91 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.11 (2025)
- Women in parliament 14.5% (2025)
- Military spending 0.4% (2024)
- Clean government 50.7 (2022)