Country comparison: Ivory Coast / Ghana

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Ivory Coast and Ghana. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Region:	Western Africa	Western Africa
Area:	322,460 km²	238,540 km²
National language:	French	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1957 AD
Capital:	Yamoussoukro	Accra

Population

Details for Ivory Coast and Ghana

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Population:	27,478,000	32,833,000
Inhabitants/km²:	85.2	137.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 58 years	Ø 62 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 60 years	Ø 66 years
Average age:	Ø 20.3 years	Ø 21.4 years
Birth rate:	34.20 ‰	28.04 ‰
Death rate:	8.82 ‰	7.45 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.18 ‰	-0.16 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Political stability:	48	47
Civil rights:	36	49
Health:	11	25
Climate:	53	56
Cost of Living:	50	42
Popularity:	37	38

Economy

Details for Ivory Coast and Ghana

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Currency:	West African franc	Ghana cedi (1 GHS =100 Pesewas)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	4.7 %
Inflation rate:	4.09 %	9.97 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	42.67 %	37.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	50.10 %	55.40 %
Average income:	2,420 US$	2,280 US$
Corruption index:	63 (bad)	57 (bad)

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	70,043 M US$	2.55 M US$	77,594 M US$	2.36 M US$
Gross national product:	66,460 M US$	2.42 M US$	74,911 M US$	2.28 M US$
Exported goods:	13,232 M US$	0.48 M US$	23,901 M US$	0.73 M US$
Imported goods:	12,660 M US$	0.46 M US$	25,967 M US$	0.79 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Ivory Coast and Ghana

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	81,996 km	2.98 km	65,725 km	2.00 km
Railways:	660 km	0.02 km	947 km	0.03 km
Waterways:	980 km	0.04 km	1,293 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	25	0.0009	51	0.0016
Passenger airports:	2	0.0001	5	0.0002

Energy balance

Details for Ivory Coast and Ghana

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	6.25 bn kWh	227,270.67 kWh	9.36 bn kWh	285,170.14 kWh
Energy production:	9.73 bn kWh	354,098.25 kWh	12.52 bn kWh	381,323.31 kWh
Energy export:	872.00 m kWh	31,734.19 kWh	187.00 m kWh	5,695.48 kWh
Energy imports:	19.00 m kWh	691.46 kWh	511.00 m kWh	15,563.60 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.83 m t	394.13 t	20.04 m t	610.36 t

Telecommunication

Details for Ivory Coast and Ghana

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
International dialing:	+225	+233
Internet domain:	.ci	.gh

	CIV total	CIV per 1000 inh.	GHA total	GHA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	265,513	10	315,271	10
Mobile cellulars:	44,561,505	1622	40,454,073	1232
Internet server:	9,115	0	59,086	2
Internet users:	9,971,569	363	22,523,459	686
Broadband Internet:	335,041	12	114,543	3

Healthcare system

Details for Ivory Coast and Ghana

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.40	0.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.23	0.18
Diabetes:	2.4 %	2.5 %
Malaria:	330.6 %	224.3 %
HIV:	0.33 %	0.86 %
Tuberculosis:	1.28 ‰	1.36 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	86.0 %
Smokers:	9.4 %	3.5 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Ivory Coast and Ghana

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Daytime temperatures:	32.2 °C	32.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.1 °C	23.2 °C
Water temperature:	26.6 °C	26.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	78 %
Rain days:	7.9	6.3
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	6.4

Native languages

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Akan:	30.0 %	n/a
English:	n/a	15.3 %
Asante:	n/a	14.8 %
Ewe:	n/a	12.7 %
Gur:	11.7 %	n/a
Malinke:	11.4 %	n/a
Kru:	10.5 %	n/a
Fante:	n/a	9.9 %
Bambara:	8.4 %	n/a
South-Mande:	7.7 %	n/a
Boron:	n/a	4.6 %
Dagomba:	n/a	4.3 %
Dangme:	n/a	4.3 %
Dagarte:	n/a	3.7 %
Akyem:	n/a	3.4 %
Ga:	n/a	3.4 %
Akuapem:	n/a	2.9 %
French:	2.1 %	n/a
other:	18.2 %	20.7 %

Religions

	Ivory Coast	Ghana
Christianity:	32.8 %	71.2 %
Islam:	38.6 %	17.6 %
Nondenominational:	16.7 %	5.2 %
Native religions:	11.9 %	5.2 %
other:	0.0 %	0.8 %

Data inventory and updates

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Ivory Coast	Ghana
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