🇬🇭 Ghana
Republic of Ghana
Every statistic we track for Ghana — 142 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$9,116
66.4 yrs
4.55
0.61
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Compare Ghana with its neighbours across the same 142 indicators.
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.3 | #46/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #35/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 21.6 | #184/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 26.1 | #48/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 35.7 | #43/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 156.9 | #86/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 16,030 | #53/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 58.4% | #132/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 91.9% | #157/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 40.8% | #17/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 72.2% | #117/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 120.8 | #81/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 35.6% | #47/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 8.4 | #94/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.7 | #153/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 369 | #137/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 36.9 | #144/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 36.2% | #83/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 72.2 | #39/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 41.7% | #31/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.9 | #100/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 9 | #56/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 25.9 | #15/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 27.8% | #33/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 80.9% | #105/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 16.2% | #135/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.3 | #136/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 16.9% | #109/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 4.6% | #81/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.6 | #68/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 45.6 | #112/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 3.3 | #122/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 72.7% | #54/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.6 | #115/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.9 | #66/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.3 | #108/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #52/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.5 | #92/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0 | #137/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1 | #115/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.6 | #143/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 78.6% | #28/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 36.4% | #34/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 7.1% | #110/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 88.1% | #37/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 87.2% | #36/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 30.9% | #38/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 11.6% | #35/39 | 2023 |
| Signed a Petition | 3.7% | #116/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 22.3% | #22/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 45.2% | #31/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in government | 5.8 | #19/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.2 | #46/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 4.6 | #24/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 70.5% | #85/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 71.8% | #54/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.3 | #53/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 50.4% | #34/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.