Country comparison: Ghana / Nigeria

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

General information

	Ghana	Nigeria
Region:	Western Africa	Western Africa
Area:	238,540 km²	923,770 km²
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1957 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Accra	Abuja

Population

Details for Ghana and Nigeria

	Ghana	Nigeria
Population:	32,833,000	213,401,000
Inhabitants/km²:	137.6	231.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 62 years	Ø 52 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 53 years
Average age:	Ø 21.4 years	Ø 18.6 years
Birth rate:	27.55 ‰	37.12 ‰
Death rate:	7.63 ‰	13.08 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.16 ‰	-0.21 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Ghana	Nigeria
Political stability:	56	25
Civil rights:	49	23
Health:	25	12
Climate:	56	53
Cost of Living:	45	55
Popularity:	38	38

Economy

Details for Ghana and Nigeria

	Ghana	Nigeria
Currency:	Ghana cedi (1 GHS = 100 Pesewas)	naira (1 NGN =100 Kobo)
Unemployment rate:	3.9 %	5.8 %
Inflation rate:	9.97 %	16.95 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	22.20 %	39.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	34.80 %
Average income:	2,280 US$	2,080 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	82.12 %	32.70 %
Corruption index:	57 (bad)	76 (very bad)

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	NGA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	77,594 M US$	2.36 M US$	440,834 M US$	2.07 M US$
Gross national product:	74,911 M US$	2.28 M US$	444,028 M US$	2.08 M US$
Exported goods:	23,901 M US$	0.73 M US$	50,856 M US$	0.24 M US$
Imported goods:	25,967 M US$	0.79 M US$	66,107 M US$	0.31 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Ghana and Nigeria

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	NGA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	65,725 km	2.00 km	195,000 km	0.91 km
Railways:	947 km	0.03 km	3,798 km	0.02 km
Waterways:	1,293 km	0.04 km	8,600 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	51	0.0016	791	0.0037
Passenger airports:	5	0.0002	22	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Ghana and Nigeria

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	NGA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	46.53 bn kWh	1.42 m kWh	102.41 bn kWh	479,908.74 kWh
Energy consumption:	13.11 bn kWh	399,224.70 kWh	24.61 bn kWh	115,329.56 kWh
Energy production:	17.32 bn kWh	527,662.43 kWh	29.32 bn kWh	137,414.71 kWh
Energy export:	1.80 bn kWh	54,853.30 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	58.00 m kWh	1,766.51 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	20.04 m t	610.38 t	115.28 m t	540.19 t

Telecommunication

Details for Ghana and Nigeria

	Ghana	Nigeria
International dialing:	+233	+234
Internet domain:	.gh	.ng

	GHA total	GHA per 1000 inh.	NGA total	NGA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	315,271	10	106,385	0
Mobile cellulars:	40,454,073	1232	195,128,265	914
Internet server:	59,086	2	1,234	0
Internet users:	22,523,459	686	75,757,470	355
Broadband Internet:	114,543	3	65,917	0

Healthcare system

Details for Ghana and Nigeria

	Ghana	Nigeria
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.90	0.50
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.18	0.38
Diabetes:	2.5 %	3.1 %
Malaria:	224.3 %	291.9 %
HIV:	0.86 %	0.44 %
Tuberculosis:	1.36 ‰	2.19 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	90.0 %
Smokers:	3.5 %	3.7 %

Climate

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

	Ghana	Nigeria
Daytime temperatures:	32.0 °C	33.3 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.2 °C	22.2 °C
Water temperature:	26.4 °C	26.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	70 %
Rain days:	6.3	7.8
Sunshine hours per day:	6.4	6.3

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Nigeria
Ghana

Native languages

	Ghana	Nigeria
Yoruba:	n/a	21.4 %
Hausa:	n/a	21.1 %
Ibo:	n/a	18.1 %
English:	15.3 %	n/a
Asante:	14.8 %	n/a
Ewe:	12.7 %	n/a
Fula:	n/a	11.3 %
Fante:	9.9 %	n/a
Ibibio:	n/a	5.6 %
Boron:	4.6 %	n/a
Dagomba:	4.3 %	n/a
Dangme:	4.3 %	n/a
Kanuri:	n/a	4.1 %
Dagarte:	3.7 %	n/a
Ga:	3.4 %	n/a
Akyem:	3.4 %	n/a
Edo:	n/a	3.3 %
Akuapem:	2.9 %	n/a
Tiv:	n/a	2.3 %
Ijo:	n/a	1.8 %
Bura:	n/a	1.6 %
other:	20.7 %	9.4 %

Religions

	Ghana	Nigeria
Christianity:	71.2 %	40.0 %
Islam:	17.6 %	50.0 %
Native religions:	5.2 %	10.0 %
Nondenominational:	5.2 %	n/a
other:	0.8 %	0.0 %

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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