Ghana
Ghana in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Ghana recorded GDP per capita: 3,257 (2025), ranking 156 of 212 worldwide; Population: 35.06 million (2025), ranking 47 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 65.7 (2024), ranking 189 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 14.20% (2025), ranking 13 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+9283%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-77%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 8 of 19 comparable series are higher and 11 are lower.
Its population of 35.06 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 114,209,905,278.72 | 2025 | +9282.8% |
| GDP per capita | 3,257.16 | 2025 | +1762.7% |
| GDP growth | 5.95% | 2025 | +73.6% |
| Population | 35,064,272 | 2025 | +403.7% |
| Population growth | 1.83% | 2025 | -35.7% |
| Urban population | 58.92% | 2025 | +153.0% |
| Inflation | 14.2% | 2025 | -46.3% |
| Life expectancy | 65.69 | 2024 | +39.9% |
| Infant mortality | 27.5 | 2024 | -77.5% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.7 | 2024 | +167.3% |
| GDP (PPP) | 301,913,189,126.83 | 2025 | +1140.7% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 8,610.28 | 2025 | +444.7% |
| Labor participation | 58.52% | 2025 | -19.9% |
| Unemployment | 2.98% | 2025 | -14.6% |
| Electricity access | 91.9% | 2024 | +200.3% |
| Internet users | 72.18% | 2024 | — |
| Forest area | 35.19% | 2023 | -19.3% |
| Education spending | 2.91% | 2022 | -31.1% |
| Health spending | 2.95% | 2023 | +77.2% |