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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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Distribution of athletes from Ghana by birth date

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