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Ghana

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Ghana is a country. The capital city is Accra, located in the Western Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 227,533 km², a population of 33,787,914 people and uses the currency New Ghanaian cedi. The President is Nana Akufo-Addo.

Key facts

currency: New Ghanaian cedi
capital city: Accra
region: Western Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 227,533 km²
population: 33,787,914 people
political leader: Nana Akufo-Addo (President)

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expense: 22.68 % of GDP
GDP: 76,370,396,722.15 current US$
inflation: 38.11 annual %
self-employed workers: 71.17 % of total employment
tax revenue: 12.30 % of GDP
unemployment: 3.06 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 67.87 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 16,000 people
democracy score: 6.63
democracy type: Flawed democracy
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 3,800 people
individuals using the Internet: 69.90 % of population
military expenditure: 0.39 % of GDP
net migration: -10,003 people
press freedom: 3.76
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 14.55 %
birth rate: 27.08 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.58 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 100.00 current US$
health expenditure: 4.15 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.53 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.69 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 64
suicide mortality rate: 6.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 126,037.40 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 5.87 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 24.16 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 85.10 % of population
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: 3.51 births per woman
forest area: 80,001 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 52.54 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 48.27 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 17.00
methane emissions: 18.72 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 3.41 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 16,910,369 people
male population: 16,877,545 people
renewable energy consumption: 39.00 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 227,830.30 km²
rural population: 13,772,630 people
urban land area: 5,559.55 km²
urban population: 20,015,284 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.42 % of total population

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Ghana is one of the countries in Africa, countries in Western Africa and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of companies in Ghana by foundation year

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Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Ghana

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Evolution of historical net energy imports in Ghana with forecast

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Evolution of historical incidence of HIV in Ghana with forecast

Evolution of historical tax revenue in Ghana with forecast

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Correlation of birth rate and life expectancy at birth of countries yearly in Ghana

Correlation of birth rate and median age by countries yearly in Ghana

Correlation of urban land area and armed forces personnel by countries yearly in Ghana

Correlation of population and date by countries yearly in Ghana

In literature

There are 412 books written about Ghana in the database.

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