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International Rankings of Ghana - 2024


SOURCE: 2024 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

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This table lists the international rankings of Ghana, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Ghana, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data Rank Value Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 58 0.30 2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total 133 78371 2020
Internet users - percent of population 51 68.00 % 2021
Internet users - total 41 22.440 million 2021
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 58 1.00 2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions 104 330016 2022
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 40 123.00 2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions 42 40.454 million 2021
Economy
Average household expenditures - on alcohol and tobacco 51 1.00 % of household expenditures 2018
Average household expenditures - on food 14 41.30 % of household expenditures 2018
Budget - expenditures 86 14.062 billion US Dollars 2018
Budget - revenues 94 9.492 billion US Dollars 2018
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-) 83 6.00 % of GDP N/A
Current account balance 164 2.541 billion US Dollars 2021
Debt - external 95 20.467 billion US Dollars 2019
Exchange rates 106 5.81 N/A
Exports 82 23.901 billion US Dollars 2021
GDP (official exchange rate) 79 65.363 billion US Dollars 2019
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services 78 43.00 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption 124 8.60 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption 38 80.10 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services 97 46.50 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital 123 13.70 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories 45 1.10 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture 49 18.30 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry 92 24.50 % of GDP 2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services 116 57.20 % of GDP 2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income 30 44 % 2016
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10% 42 32.80 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population 2006
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10% 31 2.00 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population N/A
Imports 82 25.967 billion US Dollars 2021
Industrial production growth rate 157 0.80 % 2021
Inflation rate (consumer prices) 24 9.97 % 2021
Labor force 46 14.095 million US Dollars 2021
Population below poverty line 74 23 % 2016
Public debt 56 71.80 % of GDP 2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity) 72 178.455 billion US Dollars 2021
Real GDP growth rate 82 5.36 % 2021
Real GDP per capita 139 5400 US Dollars 2021
Remittances 54 6 2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 79 9.917 billion US Dollars 2021
Taxes and other revenues 172 11.34 % of GDP N/A
Unemployment rate 150 4.70 % 2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female 119 9.40 % N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male 121 9.70 % N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total 120 9.60 % 2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from coal and metallurgical coke 110 160000 metric tonnes of CO2 2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - from consumed natural gas 83 4.364 million metric tonnes of CO2 2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids 82 13.569 million metric tonnes of CO2 2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total 89 18.093 million 2019
Coal - consumption 107 48000 metric tons 2020
Coal - imports 96 48000 metric tons 2020
Electricity - consumption 87 13.108 billion kWh 2019
Electricity - exports 53 1.801 billion kWh 2020
Electricity - imports 112 58.000 million kWh 2020
Electricity - installed generating capacity 85 5.312 million kWh 2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses 78 2.474 billion kWh 2019
Electricity access - electrification - rural areas 37 74 2021
Electricity access - electrification - total population 29 86 2021
Electricity access - electrification - urban areas 19 95 2021
Electricity access - population without electricity 21 5.000 million 2020
Electricity generation sources - biomass and waste 56 0.10 % 2020
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels 85 63.80 % 2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity 52 35.90 % 2020
Electricity generation sources - solar 66 0.30 % 2020
Energy consumption per capita 151 11.239 million Btu/person 2019
Natural gas - consumption 82 2.225 billion cubic meters 2019
Natural gas - imports 68 625.915 million cubic meters 2019
Natural gas - production 61 1.599 billion cubic meters 2019
Natural gas - proven reserves 69 22.653 billion cubic meters 2021
Petroleum - crude oil and lease condensate exports 31 176800 bbl/day 2018
Petroleum - crude oil and lease condensate imports 78 3900 bbl/day 2018
Petroleum - crude oil estimated reserves 39 660.000 million bbl/day 2021
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption 83 98000 bbl/day 2019
Petroleum - total petroleum production 35 185700 bbl/day 2021
Refined petroleum products - exports 102 2654 bbl/day 2015
Refined petroleum products - imports 61 85110 bbl/day 2015
Refined petroleum products - production 106 2073 bbl/day 2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions 87 17 megatons 2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions 60 23 megatons 2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions 13 46 micrograms per cubic meter 2019
Land use - agricultural land 24 69 2018
Land use - arable land 48 21 2018
Land use - forest 120 21 2018
Land use - permanent crops 22 12 2018
Land use - permanent pasture 38 37 2018
Revenue from forest resources 21 4 % of GDP 2018
Total renewable water resources 89 56.200 billion cubic meters 2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural 85 1.070 billion cubic meters 2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial 84 100.000 million cubic meters 2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal 84 300.000 million cubic meters 2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization 40 3.06 N/A
Urbanization - urban population 96 59 2023
Geography
Area - land 83 227533 sq km N/A
Area - total 84 238533 sq km N/A
Area - water 44 11000 sq km N/A
Coastline 102 539 km N/A
Elevation - highest point 141 885 meters N/A
Elevation - mean elevation 124 190 meters N/A
Irrigated land 115 360 sq km 2013
Land boundaries - total 80 2420 km N/A
Land use - agricultural land 24 69 2018
Land use - arable land 48 21 2018
Land use - forest 120 21 2018
Land use - permanent crops 22 12 2018
Land use - permanent pasture 38 37 2018
Population Density 83 148.75 Persons per sq km N/A
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer 120 1 liters of pure alcohol 2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - other alcohols 29 1 liters of pure alcohol 2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total 127 2 liters of pure alcohol 2019
Birth rate 34 28.00 births/1,000 population 2023
Child marriage - men married by age 18 23 4 2018
Child marriage - women married by age 15 30 5 N/A
Child marriage - women married by age 18 41 19 N/A
Children under the age of 5 years underweight 31 13 % 1718
Contraceptive prevalence rate 104 27.20 % 1718
Current health expenditure 76 4 % of GDP 2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49) 95 54 % 2023
Death rate 68 6.00 deaths/1,000 population 2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio 136 5.90 % N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio 30 17.00 % 2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio 49 68.70 % N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio 44 62.90 % N/A
Drinking water source - improved 13 99 % of population N/A
Drinking water source - rural 52 16 % of population N/A
Drinking water source - total 53 8 % of population 2020
Drinking water source - unimproved 52 1 % of population N/A
Education expenditures 47 4 % of GDP 2018
Gross reproduction rate 27 1.78 % 2023
Infant mortality rate - female 46 28.40 deaths/1,000 live births N/A
Infant mortality rate - male 44 35.30 deaths/1,000 live births N/A
Infant mortality rate - total 46 31.90 deaths/1,000 live births 2023
Life expectancy at birth - female 110 71 years N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male 106 68 years N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population 107 70 years 2023
Literacy - definition 2 15 N/A
Literacy - female 83 75 % 2018
Literacy - male 65 84 % N/A
Literacy - total population 73 79 % N/A
Maternal mortality ratio 34 263.00 deaths/100,000 live births 2020
Median age - female 139 22 years N/A
Median age - male 142 20 years N/A
Median age - total 132 21 years 2023
Mother's mean age at first birth 59 22 2022
Net migration rate 60 0.20 migrant(s)/1,000 population N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate 102 10.90 % 2016
Physicians density 144 0.17 physicians/1,000 population 2020
Population 44 33.846 million 2023
Population growth rate 32 2.19 % 2023
Sanitation facility access - improved 61 85 % of population N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural 44 47 % of population N/A
Sanitation facility access - total 45 29 % of population 2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved 34 15 % of population N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years 14 1.02 male(s)/female N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years 30 0.93 male(s)/female N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over 32 0.81 male(s)/female N/A
Sex ratio - at birth 11 1.03 male(s)/female N/A
Sex ratio - total population 24 0.95 male(s)/female N/A
Total fertility rate 32 3.61 children born/woman 2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization 40 3.06 N/A
Urbanization - urban population 96 59 2023
Transportation
Airports 114 11 2024
Heliports 59 7 2024
Merchant marine - total 108 52 2023
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers 118 467438 2018
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers 81 21.00 N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers 25 3 2020
Railways - narrow gauge 31 947 2022
Railways - total 65 947 km 2022
Roadways - paved 41 14948 km 2021
Roadways - total 46 65725 km 2021
Waterways 56 1293 km 2011

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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