Ghana
Ghana in numbers
39 measures of Ghana from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.48% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$385M in 2025
- Military spending per person$15 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel16,000 people in 2020
- National power0.17% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.13% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports5 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports19 million TIV in 2005
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Ghana with…
- Ghana vs Nigeria
- Ghana vs Ethiopia
- Ghana vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Ghana vs Tanzania
- Ghana vs South Africa
- Ghana vs Kenya
- Ghana vs Sudan
- Ghana vs Uganda
- Ghana vs Angola
- Ghana vs Mozambique
- Ghana vs Madagascar
- Ghana vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Ghana vs Cameroon
- Ghana vs Niger
- Ghana vs Mali
- Ghana vs Burkina Faso
- Ghana vs Malawi
- Ghana vs Zambia
- Ghana vs Chad
- Ghana vs Somalia
- Ghana vs Senegal
- Ghana vs Zimbabwe
- Ghana vs Guinea
- Ghana vs Benin
- Ghana vs Rwanda
- Ghana vs Burundi
- Ghana vs South Sudan
- Ghana vs Togo
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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