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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Accra	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Ghana	United States
Population:	31,073,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	130.3	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 63 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 65 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 20.6 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	28.99 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.22 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.17 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Ghana	United States
Political stability:	48	73
Civil rights:	51	83
Health:	21	74
Climate:	51	64
Cost of Living:	45	35
Popularity:	37	72

Economy

	Ghana	United States
Currency:	Ghana Cedi (1 GHS = 100 Pesewas)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.5 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	9.95 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	29.85 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,230 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	43 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	72,354 M US$	2.33 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	69,208 M US$	2.23 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	25,592 M US$	0.82 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	26,908 M US$	0.87 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	GHA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	109,515 km	3.52 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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:	48	0.002	3,673	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	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	12.52 bn kWh	402,922.86 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	187.00 m kWh	6,018.10 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	511.00 m kWh	16,445.17 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	16.11 m t	518.46 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	288,531	9	107,281,000	326
Mobile phones:	40,857,100	1315	404,577,000	1228
Internet server:	59,086	2	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	11,862,964	382	286,441,830	869

Healthcare system

	Ghana	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.90	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.18	2.59
Diabetes:	2.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	1.10 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	1.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	3.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Ghana and United States

	Ghana	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.3 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	26.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	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 %
other:	20.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Ghana	United States
Christianity:	71.2 %	78.5 %
Islam:	17.6 %	1.1 %
Native religions:	5.2 %	n/a
nondenominational:	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 %