Country comparison Ghana : United States

General information

	Ghana	United States
Region:	Western Africa	North America
Area:	238,540 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	English	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1957 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Accra	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Ghana	United States
Population:	31,073,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	130.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 63 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 65 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 21.4 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	28.60 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.15 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.17 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Ghana	United States
Political stability:	48	63
Civil rights:	51	81
Health:	26	71
Climate:	56	66
Cost of Living:	42	38
Popularity:	39	67

Economy

	Ghana	United States
Currency:	Ghana Cedi (1 GHS = 100 Pesewas)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.7 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	9.97 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	37.34 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,340 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	43 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	68,532 M US$	2.21 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	72,856 M US$	2.34 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	22,077 M US$	0.71 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	24,545 M US$	0.79 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	109,515 km	3.52 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	947 km	0.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,293 km	0.04 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	51	0.002	3,627	0.011
Airports:	10	0.000	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	9.36 bn kWh	301,323.23 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	12.52 bn kWh	402,922.86 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	187.00 m kWh	6,018.10 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	511.00 m kWh	16,445.17 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	16.11 m t	518.46 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Ghana	United States
International dialing:	+233	+1
Internet domain:	.gh	.us

	GHA total	GHA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	307,668	10	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	40,461,609	1302	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	59,086	2	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	16,468,661	530	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	78,371	3	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Ghana	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.90	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.18	2.59
Diabetes:	2.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.94 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	3.5 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Ghana and United States

	Ghana	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.2 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	26.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.5	7.2

Native languages

	Ghana	United States
English:	15.3 %	82.1 %
Asante:	14.8 %	n/a
Ewe:	12.7 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Fante:	9.9 %	n/a
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
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	20.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Ghana	United States
Christianity:	71.2 %	78.5 %
Islam:	17.6 %	1.1 %
Nondenominational:	5.2 %	n/a
Native religions:	5.2 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.8 %	15.3 %