Country comparison: France / Ghana

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

General information

	France	Ghana
Region:	Western Europe	Western Africa
Area:	549,087 km²	238,540 km²
National language:	French	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1957 AD
Capital:	Paris	Accra

Population

Details for France and Ghana

	France	Ghana
Population:	67,750,000	32,833,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	137.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 62 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 66 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 21.4 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	28.04 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	7.45 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-0.16 ‰

Quality of life

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

	France	Ghana
Political stability:	74	47
Civil rights:	85	49
Health:	92	25
Climate:	41	56
Cost of Living:	30	42
Popularity:	71	38

Economy

Details for France and Ghana

	France	Ghana
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Ghana cedi (1 GHS =100 Pesewas)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	4.7 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	9.97 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	37.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	55.40 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	2,280 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	57 (bad)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	77,594 M US$	2.36 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	74,911 M US$	2.28 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	23,901 M US$	0.73 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	25,967 M US$	0.79 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Ghana

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	65,725 km	2.00 km
Railways:	29,640 km	0.44 km	947 km	0.03 km
Harbours:	548	0.0081	51	0.0016
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	5	0.0002

Energy balance

Details for France and Ghana

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	9.36 bn kWh	285,170.14 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	12.52 bn kWh	381,323.31 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	187.00 m kWh	5,695.48 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	511.00 m kWh	15,563.60 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	20.04 m t	610.36 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Ghana

	France	Ghana
International dialing:	+33	+233
Internet domain:	.fr	.gh

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	GHA total	GHA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	315,271	10
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	40,454,073	1232
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	59,086	2
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	22,523,459	686
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	114,543	3

Healthcare system

Details for France and Ghana

	France	Ghana
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	0.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.18
Diabetes:	4.8 %	2.5 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.86 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	1.36 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	86.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	3.5 %

Climate

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

	France	Ghana
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	32.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	23.2 °C
Water temperature:	15.4 °C	26.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	78 %
Rain days:	8.9	6.3
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	6.4

Native languages

	France	Ghana
French:	93.6 %	n/a
English:	n/a	15.3 %
Asante:	n/a	14.8 %
Ewe:	n/a	12.7 %
Fante:	n/a	9.9 %
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 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	1.5 %	20.7 %

Religions

	France	Ghana
Christianity:	64.0 %	71.2 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	5.2 %
Islam:	8.0 %	17.6 %
Native religions:	n/a	5.2 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.8 %

Data inventory and updates

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