Country comparison: Ghana / Kenya

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

General information

	Ghana	Kenya
Region:	Western Africa	Eastern Africa
Area:	238,540 km²	580,370 km²
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1957 AD	1963 AD
Capital:	Accra	Nairobi

Population

Details for Ghana and Kenya

	Ghana	Kenya
Population:	32,833,000	53,006,000
Inhabitants/km²:	137.6	91.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 62 years	Ø 60 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 65 years
Average age:	Ø 21.4 years	Ø 20.0 years
Birth rate:	28.04 ‰	28.00 ‰
Death rate:	7.45 ‰	7.46 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.16 ‰	-0.19 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Ghana	Kenya
Political stability:	47	41
Civil rights:	49	34
Health:	25	13
Climate:	56	90
Cost of Living:	42	45
Popularity:	38	43

Economy

Details for Ghana and Kenya

	Ghana	Kenya
Currency:	Ghana cedi (1 GHS = 100 Pesewas)	Kenian schilling (1 KES =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.7 %	5.7 %
Inflation rate:	9.97 %	6.11 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	37.33 %	42.34 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	37.20 %
Average income:	2,280 US$	2,080 US$
Corruption index:	57 (bad)	68 (bad)

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	77,594 M US$	2.36 M US$	110,347 M US$	2.08 M US$
Gross national product:	74,911 M US$	2.28 M US$	110,401 M US$	2.08 M US$
Exported goods:	23,901 M US$	0.73 M US$	11,825 M US$	0.22 M US$
Imported goods:	25,967 M US$	0.79 M US$	21,853 M US$	0.41 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Ghana and Kenya

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	65,725 km	2.00 km	161,452 km	3.05 km
Railways:	947 km	0.03 km	3,819 km	0.07 km
Harbours:	51	0.0016	26	0.0005
Passenger airports:	5	0.0002	16	0.0003

Energy balance

Details for Ghana and Kenya

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	9.36 bn kWh	285,170.14 kWh	7.86 bn kWh	148,342.78 kWh
Energy production:	12.52 bn kWh	381,323.31 kWh	9.63 bn kWh	181,754.33 kWh
Energy export:	187.00 m kWh	5,695.48 kWh	39.10 m kWh	737.66 kWh
Energy imports:	511.00 m kWh	15,563.60 kWh	184.00 m kWh	3,471.33 kWh
CO2 emissions:	20.04 m t	610.36 t	22.28 m t	420.33 t

Telecommunication

Details for Ghana and Kenya

	Ghana	Kenya
International dialing:	+233	+254
Internet domain:	.gh	.ke

	GHA total	GHA per 1000 inh.	KEN total	KEN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	315,271	10	61,096	1
Mobile cellulars:	40,454,073	1232	65,085,720	1228
Internet server:	59,086	2	71,018	1
Internet users:	22,523,459	686	15,636,656	295
Broadband Internet:	114,543	3	788,996	15

Healthcare system

Details for Ghana and Kenya

	Ghana	Kenya
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.90	1.40
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.18	0.20
Diabetes:	2.5 %	3.1 %
Malaria:	224.3 %	70.1 %
HIV:	0.86 %	1.17 %
Tuberculosis:	1.36 ‰	2.51 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	3.5 %	11.1 %

Climate

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

	Ghana	Kenya
Daytime temperatures:	32.0 °C	27.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.2 °C	16.5 °C
Water temperature:	26.4 °C	27.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	66 %
Rain days:	6.3	7.2
Sunshine hours per day:	6.4	7.2

Native languages

	Ghana	Kenya
Kikuyu:	n/a	20.9 %
English:	15.3 %	n/a
Asante:	14.8 %	n/a
Luhya:	n/a	13.8 %
Luo:	n/a	12.8 %
Ewe:	12.7 %	n/a
Kamba:	n/a	11.2 %
Kalenjin:	n/a	10.8 %
Fante:	9.9 %	n/a
Gusii:	n/a	6.1 %
Nyika:	n/a	4.8 %
Boron:	4.6 %	n/a
Dagomba:	4.3 %	n/a
Dangme:	4.3 %	n/a
Dagarte:	3.7 %	n/a
Akyem:	3.4 %	n/a
Ga:	3.4 %	n/a
Akuapem:	2.9 %	n/a
Masai:	n/a	1.6 %
Turkana:	n/a	1.4 %
other:	20.7 %	16.6 %

Religions

	Ghana	Kenya
Christianity:	71.2 %	82.5 %
Islam:	17.6 %	11.1 %
Native religions:	5.2 %	1.6 %
Nondenominational:	5.2 %	2.4 %
other:	0.8 %	2.4 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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